5 edition of The Gulf of Mexico (True Books: Geography : Bodies of Water) found in the catalog.
Published
August 2000
by Children"s Press (CT)
.
Written in
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 48 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL9409443M |
| ISBN 10 | 0516273175 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780516273174 |
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal Edition: 1st Ed. The bulk of the book focuses on the gulf coasts of five U.S. states in the 18th to 21st centuries, and Davis brings that history alive by couching it in the stories of individual people.
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by US states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida border Basin countries: United States, Mexico, Cuba. Gulf of Mexico, Spanish Golfo de México, partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent. It is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Florida, running between the peninsula of Florida and the island of Cuba, and to the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatán Channel, which runs between the Yucatán Peninsula and Cuba.
The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone is located in the northern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana and Texas. The zone was first documented in Learn more about the annual size and location of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone since Hypoxia occurs in many places throughout the world. Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a new non-fiction book by Elaine Landau that chronicles the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Its broken into several sections that cover the explosion, stoppage of the leak, the devastating affects on sea life and local economies, and suggestions for what concerned readers can do/5.
The Wells family.
All our yesterdays
Abridged year book.
Text-book of English history from the earliest times for colleges and schools
The summe of Christian religion.
Peer coaching
Nominations of Lt. Gen. Leonard F. Chapman, Jr. and Charles A. Bowsher.
Professional examinations : Spring 1977
Africa to-morrow?
IUGG 99 Birmingham
Naval honours and awards
Beyond Beveridge
“In the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse and Simon Winchester's Atlantic comes Jack E. The Gulf of Mexico book nonfiction epic, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, which strives both to celebrate and defend its subject―the Gulf of Mexico/5(). The book breaks the Gulf into several sections, providing maps for each, and the maps are unusually good.
The sections include Mexican waters, the Northern coast of Cuba, the Gulf's Loop Current, the Florida Middle Ground, the northernmost coral reefs (off the Texas and Louisiana coasts), and the continental shelf.5/5(4).
The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History (Non Series) Hardcover – Novem by John S. Sledge (Author)/5(6). All books set in Gulf of Mexico on the global book map.
We found 52 books set in Gulf of Mexico and 29 others set nearby. Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters, Second Edition (W. Moody Jr. Natural History Series Book 22) H. Dickson Hoese. out of 5 stars Kindle Edition. $ The Complete Book of Fishing Knots, Leaders, and Lines Lindsey Philpott.
/5(79). The book starts out talking about the physical features and geology of the Gulf of Mexico. It discusses what constitutes a Gulf vs Sea vs Ocean vs inlet etc. It talked about the earlies names for the Gulf. It wasnt always the Gulf of Mexico.
It covers the earliest known usages for the Gulf and early European exploration of the Gulf/5. The Boy Chums is a series of 8 books, written under the pseudonym of Wilmer M. Ely, and published between and by A. Burt. They describe adventures of two boys in various venues in Florida and the Caribbean.
For auction is a copy of "The Boy Chums in the Gulf of Mexico, or On a Dangerous Cruise with the Greek Spongers."Seller Rating: % positive. Like the sea itself, this book is a gift."--Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea "In his paean to the Gulf of Mexico, John Sledge skillfully pilots readers past the familiar beaches and hurricanes of the South's backdoor to the : University of South Carolina Press.
The Gulf of Mexico book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Bern Keating's succinct text describes the varied landscape of the Gulf Ratings: 0. The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water.
In this beautifully written volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich. So argues Davis (history, Univ. of Florida; An Everglades Providence) in this magnificent chronicle of the Gulf of Mexico.
Spanning a period from the gulf's geological formation to the present, this book is organized around the "natural characteristics of the Gulf" (i.e 5/5(1). The Gulf of Mexico coast of the United States, from Key West, Fla., to the Rio Grande, is low and mostly sandy, presenting no marked natural features to the mariner approaching from seaward; shoal water generally extends well offshore.
The princ ipal points and harbor entrances are marked by lights, which are the chief guides for approaching or. The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S.
Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so : John S.
Sledge. The sun was at its mid-day peak as the American freighter Alcoa Puritan, loaded with 9, tons of bauxite ore, plodded its way northward in the Gulf of Mexico on its way to Mobile, master Yngvar Krantz, his man crew and seven passengers, the five-day journey up from Port of Spain, Trinidad, thus far had been uneventful.
Eighteen chapters deal with the entire Gulf of Mexico basin. Included are significant contributions from Mexican geologists. Nine topical chapters cover regional aspects of physiography and bathymetry, structural framework, the basement crust, salt tectonics and listric faulting, igneous activity, seismic stratigraphy, oil and gas resources, mineral resources and geopressured-geothermal energy.
Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico is the first book to argue that the people of this region constitute a culture area distinct from other parts of Mexico. A pioneering effort by a team of international scholars who summarize hundreds of years of history, this encyclopedic work chronicles the prehistory, ethnohistory, and contemporary issues surrounding the many and varied peoples of the Gulf Coast, Reviews: 2.
“This vast and well-told story shows how we made the Gulf of Mexico, in particular, into what local activists have begun to call a 'national sacrifice zone,' at enormous cost to its residents of all species.
It’s a sobering tale, and one hopes that reading it will help /5(). The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world, with an estimated endowment of billion barrels of oil equivalent.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basin, spanning the US, Mexico and Cuba. Topics covered include conventional and Author: John W. Snedden, William E. Galloway. For 20 years, FISHES OF THE GULF OF MEXICO has been the premier reference for identifying and classifying fish of northern Gulf waters.
This revised edition is based on two decades of research and greater attention to deepwater habitats. It now provides accounts of species, with information on 62 species not covered in the first edition/5.
Book Chapter Reservoir Architecture in the Mars Field, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, USA: The Implications of Production, Seismic, Core and Well-Log Data Author(s). Offshore staff. OSLO, Norway and HOUSTON – Magseis Fairfield has won two consecutive deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) projects in the Gulf of Mexico by an undisclosed repeat customer.
The surveys will be carried out in the Mississippi Canyon and Garden Banks areas and will cover a total area of more than sq km ( sq mi).The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E.
Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton) Share: Twitter Facebook Email An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.The Gulf Coast is divided into strike zones and the hurricanes which made landfall at each strike zone are discussed.
There is a chapter on memorable hurricanes (including the obvious contenders) and a chapter about how the Gulf of Mexico This is an excellent compilation of hurricanes either originating in the Gulf or making landfall along its coasts/5.
