Outline Of Oceanography
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to Oceanography. Below is a structured list of topics on oceanography. What type of thing is oceanography? Oceanography can be described as all of the following: * The study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean * An academic discipline – branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong. * A scientific field (a branch of science) – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer-reviewed research is published. There are several geophysics-related scientific journals. ** A natur ...
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