TY - BOOK AU - Stow,D.A.V. TI - Oceans: a very short introduction T2 - Very short introductions SN - 9780191782428 (ebook) : U1 - 551.46 23 PY - 2017/// CY - [Oxford] PB - Oxford University Press KW - Ocean N1 - Previously issued in print: 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199655076.001.0001 ER -