The Herald
Scottish winters taught Polar hero to handle the cold - now he wants to save the ice
The foundations for his epic expedition had been laid years earlier in rural Perthshire: as a child he sat beside a softly-spoken Welsh nanny listening to vivid tales of the ...
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Nature
Vertical Distribution of Radium in Deep-Sea Sediments - Nature
Joly1 remained unexplained until 1937, when H. Pettersson2 suggested an ocean-wide precipitation of ionium from sea water on to the ocean bottom as its ...
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The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean. Further Explorations - Nature
The seaward beach in most parts is formed of sand, but in places coral rock forms small cliffs, showing very evident washing away. On the westward side of the pass are “coral rock” cliffs, while ...
The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935–36 - Nature
THE plans of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-36, were briefly outlined in an article which appeared in NATURE of April 20, 1935, p. 604. The country, which is ...
Density of Bottom Animals on the Ocean Floor - Nature
It may therefore be of interest that the Danish Deep Sea Expedition in the Galathea has succeeded in taking thirteen quantitative samples with a 0.2 Petersen ...
Chemical Changes Between Sea-Water and Oceanic Deposits1 - Nature
...Forchhammer previous to 1865, and the later analyses by Dittmar, from samples collected during the Challenger Expedition, show that while the salinity—i.e. the amount of dissolved salts contained in 100 parts of sea-water—varies greatly in different regions of the ocean, still the composition of these dissolved salts—i.e. the ratio of the constituents of sea-salts—remains practically the same...geographical and bathymetrical distribution, that they cannot be said to indicate any general law other than a greater quantity of lime in deep water.
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Documentary
Explorer Victor Vescovo and his team embark on an unprecedented global mission to dive to the deepest points of the five oceans, a feat no one has ever achieved. imdb.com