CONTENTS
PREFACE
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
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Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
by P.A. TYLER
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1
Chapter 2. THE DEEP-SEA FLOOR: AN OVERVIEW
by D. THISTLE
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5
Chapter 3. THE PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE
OPEN OCEAN
by M.V. ANGEL
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39
Chapter 4. REDUCING ENVIRONMENTS OF THE
DEEP-SEA FLOOR
by V. TUNNICLIFFE, S.K. JUNIPER and
M. SIBUET
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81
Chapter 5. THE DEEP ATLANTIC OCEAN
by L.A. LEVIN and A.J. GOODAY
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111
Chapter 6. THE DEEP PACIFIC OCEAN FLOOR
by C.R. SMITH and A.W.J. DEMOPOULOS
179
Chapter 7. THE DEEP INDIAN OCEAN FLOOR
by A.W.J. DEMOPOULOS, C.R. SMITH and
P.A. TYLER
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219
Chapter 8. THE POLAR DEEP SEAS
by A. CLARKE
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239
Chapter 9. THE PERIPHERAL DEEP SEAS
by P.A. TYLER
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261
Chapter 10. LARGE-SCALE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL
PATTERNS OF DEEP-SEA BENTHIC
SPECIES DIVERSITY
by C.T. STUART, M.A. REX and R.J. ETTER
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295
Chapter 11. FOOD INPUTS, UTILIZATION, CARBON
FLOW AND ENERGETICS
by J.D. GAGE
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313
Chapter 12. REPRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT AND
LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS
by C.M. YOUNG
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381
Chapter 13. ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS ON THE
DEEP SEA
by H. THIEL
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427
Chapter 14. EPILOGUE: EXPLORATION,
OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
by P.A. TYLER
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473
GLOSSARY
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SYSTEMATIC LIST OF GENERA
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AUTHOR INDEX
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SYSTEMATIC INDEX
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GENERAL INDEX
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