The Search for a Sea Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean via North America's Coast: On the History of a Scientific Competition

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN BASIN SINCE CHRON 34Y (83 MA)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky M. Wright ◽  
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Maria Seton ◽  
Simon E. Williams ◽  
R. Dietmar Müller
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

Taxonomy of the genus Thyonella (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), with mention of the first record of T. sabanillaensis from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4527 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
LUCIANA MARTINS
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Southwestern Atlantic ◽  
Internal Morphology ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Southwestern Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

The genus Thyonella currently comprises four species which occur in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Thyonella mexicana is the only species known to occur in the Pacific Ocean. The main morphological characters used to distinguish Thyonella species are their dermal ossicles. Since the differences among these characters are subtle, this contribution provides a detailed description and comparison of the ossicle assemblage of the concerned taxa. In addition, description of the internal morphology of three of the concerned species is also provided. Further, this study reports on the first record of Thyonella sabanillaensis for the Southwestern Atlantic. A worldwide revision of the distributional records of Thyonella species is presented and their taxonomy is discussed, concluding that some traditional taxonomic characters should be used cautiously. A brief discussion about the importance of SEM analysis is also provided. 

The Pacific Ocean as Highway to Gold Mountain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Sinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

This chapter takes a broad look at the Pacific Ocean in relation to Chinese migration. As trade, consumption and capital flows followed migrants, powerful networks were woven and sustained; in time, the networks fanned across the Pacific from British Columbia along the West Coast of the United States to New Zealand and Australia. The overlapping personal, family, financial and commercial interests of Chinese in California and those in Hong Kong, which provide the focus of this study, energized the connections and kept the Pacific busy and dynamic while shaping the development of regions far beyond its shores. The ocean turned into a highway for Chinese seeking Gold Mountain, marking a new era in the history of South China, California, and the Pacific Ocean itself.

1755, Lisbon

Tsunami ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
James Goff ◽  
Walter Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Tsunami Waves ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The City

Most Europeans do not worry about tsunami waves as much as those who live around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, but they should. On All Saint’s Day, 1755, a huge earthquake struck Lisbon, Portugal, causing most stone buildings to collapse, including churches, monasteries, nunneries, and chapels, trapping the faithful inside the ruins, which votive candles quickly turned into burning pyres. Voltaire would write, “The sole consolation is that the Jesuit Inquisitors of Lisbon will have disappeared.” To add to the irony, among the few buildings safely left standing following the disaster were the lightly constructed wooden bordellos of the city. Most of Lisbon’s prostitutes but few of her nuns survived. Tsunami waves would not only kill thousands around Lisbon’s harbor but also travel south to Spain and North Africa, north to Ireland and Wales, and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean, flooding the streets of Barbados.

scholarly journals GEOSECS Pacific Radiocarbon

Radiocarbon ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
H G Östlund ◽  
Minze Stuiver
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Preceding Paper ◽  
Section Study ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

In the preceding paper (Stuiver and Östlund, this issue), some of the general features of the Geochemical Ocean Section Study (GEOSECS) were outlined and results were listed for the Atlantic Ocean. This paper will deal with the second major cruise, which was described by Craig and Turekian (1976), covering the Pacific Ocean in 1973-74 (cf fig 1).

Surf Writers of the Resolution and Discovery: Texts, Waves, Politics, and Death at Kealakekua Bay

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Lance Bertelsen
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Journal Entry ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Descriptions

The first descriptions of Hawaiian surfing were written by David Samwell, surgeon of HMS Discovery, and James King, second lieutenant of HMS Resolution, in the months bracketing Captain James Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay on 14 February 1779. In his journal entry for 22 January, Samwell described Hawaiians surfing six- to seven-foot “alaias” on the “great swell rolling into the Bay,” and in March 1779, King recorded his version of the same event, but neither text was published until 1967. In 1784, King published a significantly revised and expanded version of the scene in the third volume of the official history, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. This skewed chronology has led to some disorientation among historians of surfing, while historians of Cook’s voyages, for the most part, have neglected the surfing episodes altogether. In this essay, I address the descriptions in four interrelated contexts: (1) the history of the texts themselves; (2) their importance to the history of surfing; (3) the significance of the swell occurring during the Makahiki festival; and (4) the emotional and metaphorical impact of the scene on Western observers/writers schooled in the politics of the sublime. In the final two contexts, I suggest the metaphorical and material relationship of the scenes to King’s famous description of Cook’s death in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean and to Samwell’s equally famous response in A Narrative of the Death of Captain Cook (1786).

scholarly journals The Geological History of the Pacific Ocean*

Nature ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 125 (3159) ◽  
pp. 750-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. GREGORY
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Geological History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

scholarly journals Diazotrophic Diversity and Distribution in the Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic Ocean

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (12) ◽  
pp. 7910-7919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Langlois ◽  
Julie LaRoche ◽  
Philipp A. Raab
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Heterotrophic Bacteria ◽  
Pcr Amplification ◽  
Environmental Dna ◽  
Degenerate Primers ◽  
Community Shift ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

ABSTRACT To understand the structure of marine diazotrophic communities in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean, the molecular diversity of the nifH gene was studied by nested PCR amplification using degenerate primers, followed by cloning and sequencing. Sequences of nifH genes were amplified from environmental DNA samples collected during three cruises (November-December 2000, March 2002, and October-November 2002) covering an area between 0 to 28.3°N and 56.6 to 18.5°W. A total of 170 unique sequences were recovered from 18 stations and 23 depths. Samples from the November-December 2000 cruise contained both unicellular and filamentous cyanobacterial nifH phylotypes, as well as γ-proteobacterial and cluster III sequences, so far only reported in the Pacific Ocean. In contrast, samples from the March 2002 cruise contained only phylotypes related to the uncultured group A unicellular cyanobacteria. The October-November 2002 cruise contained both filamentous and unicellular cyanobacterial and γ-proteobacterial sequences. Several sequences were identical at the nucleotide level to previously described environmental sequences from the Pacific Ocean, including group A sequences. The data suggest a community shift from filamentous cyanobacteria in surface waters to unicellular cyanobacteria and/or heterotrophic bacteria in deeper waters. With one exception, filamentous cyanobacterial nifH sequences were present within temperatures ranging between 26.5 and 30°C and where nitrate was undetectable. In contrast, nonfilamentous nifH sequences were found throughout a broader temperature range, 15 to 30°C, more often in waters with temperature of <26°C, and were sometimes recovered from waters with detectable nitrate concentrations.

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