Oceanographers say there is just one ocean—the vast ocean of the earth in which the continents are only islands.
The great body of water, covering nearly three-quarters of the globe's surface, contains myriads of fascinating secrets. What strange forms of life live in the sea? How do the tides work? What causes the ocean's powerful currents?
Sam and Beryl Epstein answer these and many other questions in the clear, informative discussions for which they are noted. The reader goes exploring in an underwater world far beneath the ocean's surface. He inspects undersea valleys broader than the Mississippi, lofty sea mountains towering higher than Mt. Everest.
The reader also investigates continental shelves and slopes, learns about marine plants, fish and animals, examines the ocean floor itself to find out what lives there.
Here is a basic handbook of that boundless world which surrounds us all—the ocean.
—from the dust jacket
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