540 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Atlantic Ocean — continued 



inorganic phosphorus distribution, 70 

 ionium-thorium ratios, 11 

 organic matter dissolved in, 172 

 preformed phosphorus content, 35 

 residence times of deep water, 107 

 slope of sea surface, 241 

 strontium-90 in, 105 

 sub-surface samples, 14 C results, 92 ff 

 zones of sea-level changes, 486 



Atmospheric pressure 



effects on sea-level changes, 486 

 variations of, 120 



Attenuation of extinction coefficient, 349 



Autotrophic plants, 129 



Auxotrophy, 193 



Axenic cultures, 169 



Azov, Sea of, organic carbon dissolved in, 

 171 ff 



Bacillariophyceae, vitamin requirements, 



194 

 Bacteria 



antibiotic producers, 186 



organic products of, 175 ff 



regeneration of nutrients by, 375 

 Baltic Sea 



organic carbon dissolved in, 171 ff 



uranium concentrations, 15 

 Baltimore Harbor, 314 ff 

 Barium, Pacific Ocean, concentration in, 20 

 Barotropic effects, measurement of, 344 

 Barton-Beebe bathysphere, 498 

 Barton's benthoscope, 499 

 Bathyscaphs and other deep submersibles 

 for oceanographic research, 497 



Aluminaut, 509 ff, 513 ff 



bathynauts or buoyant -hulled ships, 

 508 ff 



buoyancy control, 505 ff 



FNRS-2 and FNRS-3, 500 ff 



gasoline -filled float, 504 ff 



Kuroshio, 499 ff 



"Project Nekton", 505 ff 



Trieste (A. and J. Piccard), 501 ff, 505 

 Bays: see Estuaries, definition 

 Beaufort Seas, 404 ff 

 Benguela Current, 253, 259 



"one-sided divergence", 369 



organic matter production, 277 



variations of upwelling, 271 

 Benthic 



animals, 382 



communities, 427 



Benthic — continued 

 plants, 375 ff 



Benthoscope, 499 



Bering Sea, transport from, into Arctic 

 Ocean, 404 ff 



Bermuda, primary production variation 

 measurements, 150 



Beverton-Holt : see under Fishery dynamics 



Bikini 



Japanese Expedition, 82 

 radioactive nuclides analyses, 80 



Bikini-Eniwetok proving ground, fission 

 products advection and diffusion, 84 



Bioassay of trace substances, 220 



Bioassays, 169 



agar plate method, 225 

 vitamin Bi 2 , 195, 221 



Bioauxanography, 229 



Biochemical circulation of the oceans, 69 ff 



Biochemical cycle, 27 ff 

 circulation, 49 ff 

 silicon in, 48 ff 



Biological oceanography (IV), 347 fF 



Biological species, water-masses and cur- 

 rents, 381 ff 

 distribution and speciation, 397 ff 

 water currents and biological species, 



403 ff 

 water-masses and biological species, 



383 ff 

 zooplankton-water-mass relationships, 

 385 ff 



Bioluminescence studies from diving 

 chamber, 499 



Biomass, 417, 464, 479 



Biotin, marine algae, requirement in, 

 179 



Bisubtropical species, 390 



Black Sea 



nutrients, extreme accumulation, 63 

 organic carbon dissolved in, 171 ff 

 sill depth, stability, H2S, age, 53 

 sulfide-chloride and sulfate-chloride 

 ratios, 44 ff 



Blake survey ship, 516 



Bluefin cruise, 253 



Bosphorus, estuarine circulation, 64 



Bottles: see Water sampling 



Boundary currents, Eastern, 253 



"Bravo" drifting station, 365 



B12: see Vitamin B12 



Calanus, 432 



Calcium carbonate precipitation, 23 



