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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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MIxed Layer Dynamics EXperiment (MILDEX)
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Multi-institutional cooperative experiment which took place in a deep water region (4700 m) about 650 km off Pt. Conception in central California. Two ships and two floating ...
nitrate/nitrite
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Nitrite occupies an intermediate oxidation state in the marine inorganic nitrogen cycle between the most reduced form, ammonia, and the most oxidized form, nitrate. Nitrite ...
white noise
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Noise that results in a spectrum where all frequency components have the same amount of energy. This can also refer the the resulting spectrum as well as the process. Compare to ...
red noise
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Noise with relatively enhanced low frequency power that results simply from serial correlation. The resulting power spectrum will have a negative slope. This is usually a good ...
calcareous
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Of or containing calcium carbonate or another, usually insoluble, calcium salt.
lacustrine
Earth science; Physical oceanography
Of or pertaining to a lake or lakes, or of plants and animals growing in or inhabiting lakes.
hadopelagic zone
Earth science; Physical oceanography
One of five vertical ecological zones into which the deep sea is sometimes divided. The is the lowest of the levels and is separated from the overlying abyssopelagic zone at about ...
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