Category Archives: oceans

The Living Ocean Ecosytem

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Much about the oceans is still not known: widespread weather and climate measurements for the atmosphere go back 150 years, but scientists have only been systematically monitoring ocean temperatures for about 50 years (although ice-sheet cores and deep-sea sediments provide … Continue reading →

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Atolls

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Atolls are circular, oval, or horseshoe-shaped arrays of coral reef islands that are perched around an oceanic volcanic seamount and encircle a shallow central lagoon. The small islands are separated from each other by channels that lead from the sea … Continue reading →

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Oxygen Depletion: A New Form of Ocean Habitat Loss

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and … Continue reading →

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Reefs in India

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

z GULF OF KACHCHH The Gulf of Kachchh reefs (22º15`-23º40`N; 68º20`-70º40`E) are the northernmost of India. The coral growth occurs in the form of fringing reefs on the wave-cut sandstone banks around 32 islands among the 42 that adjoin the … Continue reading →

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