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SUBJECT INDEX 



Solution residues, 191 



South Medren Pinnacle, 100 



Southern ocellation, 71 



Southwestern Island, 92 



Southwest Passage, 60, 61, 63, 68 



Spirorbid, 151 



Sponges, 99, 144, 145, 146, 149 



clinoid, 122 

 Spur and groove zone, 31, 39, 41, 43 



system, 110 

 Storm, 103, 120, 154, 190 



swells, 124, 125 



waves, 189 

 Stratification, 59 

 Strontium, 191 

 Submersible Makali'i. 15 

 Subsistence foods, 199 

 Subsurface geology, 27, 32, 39, 40, 41, 



46 

 Subtidal environments, 91, 93 

 Sunlight, 189 

 Supratidal fringe, 139 

 Surf, 58, 60, 63, 64 

 Suspension and deposit feeders, 149 

 Swell, ocean, 29, 58 

 Swells, 93 

 Syllids, 146 

 SYMBIOS Project, 12, 159, 161, 162 



Tarawa Atoll, 191 

 Tardigrades, 154 

 Tattlers, 154 

 Tectonic movements, 187 

 Temperature, 27, 57, 59, 61, 69, 140, 

 187, 189 



depth profiles, 91 



relationships, 57 



substrate, 139 

 Terrestrial environment, 187, 189, 199, 

 200 



organisms, 189, 197 

 Tertiary f)eriod, 187 

 Thermocline, 57 

 Tidal changes, 29, 37, 54 



cycle, 60, 61, 62, 63, 69 



range, 60, 139 

 Tide height, 60 



tables, 58 

 Tides, 58, 61, 62, 63, 69 

 Tora Shima Island, 27 



Tourism, 199 

 Trade goods, 18 



wind belt, 27 



winds, 68, 92, 93, 187, 189 

 Transects, reef flat, 40, 161 

 Transition zones, 57 

 Trees, 187 

 Trophic levels, 160, 168 



relationships, 151, 168, 169, 177 



transfers, 168, 177 

 Tropical storms, 27, 60, 124, 187, 189, 



190 

 Tropic bird, 216, 217 

 Trust Territory of Pacific Island 



(TTPI), 7 

 Tunnel Pinnacle, 100, 125 

 Typhoon, 27, 93, 187, 189, 190 

 Typhoon Alice, 154, 189, 190 



Ujae Atoll, 17, 27 



Ujilang Atoll, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 27, 



125, 135, 200, 201, 215 

 Ujilang resettlement, 21 

 United Nations, 22 

 United Nations Trusteeship, 7, 200 

 University of Hawaii (UH), 6, 7, 12 

 Upwelling, 66, 67, 68, 69 

 Urea, 167 

 U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 



1, 7, 12, 14, 16, 159 

 U. S. Congress, 24 

 U. S. Defense Nuclear Energy, 7 

 U. S Department of Energy, 7, 14 

 Utirik Atoll, 135 



Vegetation, 189, 190, 191, 215, 218 



recovery, 190 

 Vermetids, 146 

 Vertical mixing, 66 



transport, 69 

 Virgin Islands, 161 

 Volcanoes, callianassid, 128, 129 

 Volume transport, 60, 61, 62 63, 65, 69 

 Von Arx model, 69 



Wake Island, 6, 27 



Water column, 60, 61, 64, 68, 69 



currents, 27, 29 



fresh lens, 32, 89 



ground, 12, 14, 31, 32, 52, 54, 187, 

 189 



intermediate, 57 



isohaline, 57, 61, 68 



level, 59 



mass, 57 



oceanic, 184 



Pacific Equatorial, 57 



table, 32, 191 



temperature surface, 91 

 Wave action, 27, 43, 92, 140 



direction, 57 



energy, 57 



height, 57 

 Waves, 30, 43, 57, 58, 69, 92, 93, 94 



energy, 57 

 Weapons testing program, 1 

 Weather, 27, 71, 72, 189 

 West Spit, 63, 68, 92, 106 

 Wet-dry annual cycle, 187, 189 

 Whimbrels, 154 

 Wind, 57, 58, 62, 63, 65, 189 



data, 57 



driven transport, 57, 61, 62, 65, 66, 

 68, 69 



Pacific trade, 71 



patterns, 57, 62, 189 

 Windward buttress zone, 139, 148, 160 



platform, 153 



reef, 31 



shore, 30 

 Wisconsin glaciation, 187 

 World War II activities, 18, 25, 31, 189, 



215 

 Wotho Atoll, 17, 27 

 Wrasse, 124 



Xanthid crabs, 148, 150, 151 



Zonation, biological, 116 



lagoon, 105 

 Zone, large patch reefs, 107 



small patch reefs, 105 

 Zone of larger coral heads, 121, 160 



sand and shingle, 105, 160 



small coral heads, 105, 106, 160 



stinging coral, 160 

 Zoogeographic considerations, 135 

 Zooplankton, 69, 117, 118, 169 



diversity, 118 

 Zooxanthellae, 165, 166, 167, 168, 173 



