Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Johnson, accompanied by two assistants, will examine the more important shore line features from the Bay of Fundy to southern Florida, giving special attention to geologically recent changes in the forms of beaches and to supposed evidence of recent coastal subsidence. Lines of levels will be run between the ocean and lagoons, bays, etc., to ascertain the relative heights of high tides at different points on the irregular shores, in the belief that the data thus secured will throw light on the problem of coastal subsidence. During the latter part of the summer important localities on the coasts of England...
...Agassiz rises with difficulty, when over-whelmed with sickness, and has his mattress laid on the deck of the tossing steamer in order that he may the better record the message which the dredge or trawl has brought to light from the dark abysses of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. In such men the body has truly become merely the vehicle of the soul...
Beginning on February 6 and continuing on Monday and Friday evenings at 8 o'clock for four weeks, Sir John Murray R.C.B., F.R.S., LL.D., of the Challenger Expedition will give a series of eight lectures on "The Ocean." These lectures will also be given in Huntington Hall and will be open to the public without charge, the arrangement for obtaining tickets being the same as that announced for Professor Neilson's lectures...
...subjects of the lectures are as follows: February 6--"The Hydrosphere, Deep Sea Instruments"; February 9--Depth of the Sea and Physical Conditions of Great Depth"; February 13--"The Composition of Ocean Water"; February 16--"Oceanic Temperature and Circulation"; February 20--"Plant Life in the Ocean"; February 23--"Animal Life in the Ocean"; February 27--Coral Reefs and Theories of Their Structure and Origin"; March 2--"The Floor of the Ocean...
...John Murray, one of the pioneers in the "Challenger" who searched the bed of the ocean, year by year more famous as an explorer into the depths of its silence and its mystery...