The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN: 0807871575
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. Ulanski explores the fascinating science and history of this sea highway known as the Gulf Stream, a watery wilderness that stretches from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic. Spanning both distance and time, Ulanski's investigation reveals how the Gulf Stream affects and is affected by every living thing that encounters it--from tiny planktonic organisms to giant bluefin tuna, from ancient mariners to big-game anglers. He examines the scientific discovery of ocean circulation, the role of ocean currents in the settlement of the New World, and the biological life teeming in the stream.
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Turns north on its long journey to Nova Scotia. He described this current as joining with the flow from the north before heading across the Atlantic toward the Azores History of Ocean Circulation 49 and, finally, south along the African coast to the region of the trade winds. His work is only the second explicit thesis to place the Gulf Stream in the context of the North Atlantic gyre, coming more than a century after Vos first proposed the interlocking nature of the Atlantic’s currents. But.
To their world. To the uninitiated, these creatures of inner space may seem as bizarre as those romanticized in science fiction movies. Ranging in size from tiny to microscopic, phytoplankton, which are photosynthetic plants, and zooplankton, nonphotosynthetic animals, comprise the major planktonic organisms. 64 life i n the gulf str ea m What they lack in size, they make up for in sheer numbers. One hundred thousand cells of the smallest of the phytoplankton, single-celled.
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