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1. The Time Factor of System Genesis

   During a hundred million years a given locale on Earth may slowly sink below sea level, then rise to mountain heights, be temporarily covered by...

   Hans Jenny in The Soil Resource

   Chapter 1980
   

2. ⁵⁵Fe in Pacific Ocean plankton

   The specific activity of ⁵⁵ Fe in plankton increased from below detectable limits at 20°N to a maximum of 130 nCi/g Fe at 20°S and then decreased to 5...

   C. D. Jennings in Marine Biology

   Article 01 September 1977

3. Radionuclide Limnochronology

   Radioactive nuclides present in the environment have proved very valuable for the introduction of time parameter in a variety of earth science...

   S. Krishnaswami, D. Lal in Lakes

   Chapter 1978
   

4. Atmospheric ozone and man-made pollution

   Peter Fabian in Naturwissenschaften

   Article 01 June 1976

5. How Atmospheric Pollution Affects Sunlight and Life

   As seen from a satellite, the atmosphere wraps around the earth like a gaseous membrane, thin in comparison to the earth’s diameter yet protective of...

   Arthur C. Giese in Living with Our Sun’s Ultraviolet Rays

   Chapter 1976
   

6. The Climate

   New Zealand’s place in world climates is determined by its location and its geographical form. It is a long, narrow, mountainous land, the main...

   J. D. Coulter in Biogeography and Ecology in New Zealand

   Chapter 1975
   

7. Limiting Factors

   Contrary to our expectation from the size and diversity of ecological conditions and habitats, the limiting factors that underlie the biogeographical...

   M. S. Mani in Ecology and Biogeography in India

   Chapter 1974
   

8. Transport- und Austauschvorgänge in der Atmosphäre

   P. Fabian, P. G. Pruchniewicz, A. Zand in Naturwissenschaften

   Article 01 November 1971

9. Carbon Cycles and Temperate Woodlands

   The other chapters of this book have shown many ways of linking different parts of the same system to one another. Among the ways of linking the...

   J. S. Olson in Analysis of Temperate Forest Ecosystems

   Chapter 1973
   

10. Spectrophotometry of the environment from space

    K. Ya. Kondratyev in Naturwissenschaften

    Article 01 November 1971