Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Aboard the Research Vessel Endeavor, South of Iceland,
May 1991
1. Discovery
2. Discovery’s Wake
3. The “Invisible Phenomenon”
4. Dating
5. Photosynthesis
6. Calvin’s Cycle
7. Scintillations and Accelerations
8. The Shroud of Turin and Other Relics
9. Ocean Circulation
10. Carbon-14 in the Ocean
11. Ocean Fertility
12. Resolution: Plankton Rate Processes in Oligotrophic Oceans
13. Carbon-14 and Climate
Epilogue
Appendix 1. List of Nobel Prize Winners Mentioned
Appendix 2. The Periodic Table of Elements
Notes
References
Index
John F. Marra is professor of earth and environmental sciences and director of the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center at Brooklyn College. He was previously a research scientist and associate director of the Division of Biology and Paleoenvironment at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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