Oceans: A Very Short Introduction

Our oceans are hugely important, as a source of food and mineral wealth, as an environment for a vast variety of wildlife, for the role they play in climate regulation, and as part of the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements critical to life. Dorrik Stow explores what we know about how oceans originate and are maintained.

• | By (Author): Dorrik (Director, Institute Of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot Watt University) Stow
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0199655073
• | ISBN-13: 9780199655076