Pioneering Ocean Depths
- ISBN-10
- 0689318235
- ISBN-13
- 9780689318238
- Category
- Oceanography
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Author
- Sandra Markle
Description
Describes how scientists explore the ocean and includes simple home experiments that resemble those that scientists perform.
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