552 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Similarity and diversity, 426 



index of diversity, 423, 427 



index of similarity, 422 



measurement of, 420 

 Skate submarine, 497 

 Skeletonema costatum, 202 ff, 205, 208 

 Skipjack growth rate and biomass, 461, 



462 

 Slope of sea surface, 241 

 Solvent extraction, partial recovery of 



dissolved organic matter, 166 

 Sounds: see Estuaries, definition 

 South Atlantic Ocean 



annual range of surface temperature, 270 



central water masses, 72 



high salinity tongue, 249 



phytoplankton, vertical distribution, 131 



radiocarbon 14 C surface samples, 91 

 Southern Ocean, The (Southern Seas), 281 

 {see also Antarctic Ocean) 



climatology, 291 ff 



depths, 281 



future needs, 294 ff 



nutrient salts, 293 ff 



oceanographic data, 282 



topography, 281 



warm deep water, 284 ff 



water-masses, 282 ff 



wind zones, 282 



zoogeography, 291 ff 

 South Equatorial Currents, 245 

 South Georgia, 292 

 South Pacific Ocean 



annual range of surface temperature, 

 270 



subpolar eastern currents, 274 

 South Polar Seas: see Southern Ocean 

 Southwest Africa, coastal upwelling, 369 

 Spectrum, fission products, 78 

 Spitzbergen waters, productivity, 365 

 Sponges producing antibiotics, 187 

 Stability, H2S accumulation, age in stag- 

 nant basins, comparative table, 53 

 Stagnant basins, 50 ff 

 Stagnation, relation to stability, 52 

 Standard oxygen water, 121 

 Standard Sea-Water, 112 ff 

 Standing stock of organisms, 129 



as index of productivity, 135 ff 

 Steady states in communities of organisms, 



434, 450 

 Steady-state system in oceanic mixing, 90 

 Steele's equations, 450 ff 

 Steroids assay, 228 



Steric level changes, 260, 486, 492 

 Strontium concentration and abundances, 



19, 23 

 Strontium isotope, 19, 23 



distribution, 104 ff 



in Atlantic Ocean, 105 



in fallout, 78 



in stratosphere, 78 

 Sub-Antarctic zone, 290 ff, 402 

 Subarctic 



ecological zone of zooplankton, 385 



sea-level changes, 494 



water-mass, 390 ff 

 Subpolar eastern currents, 274 ff 

 Sub-surface ocean samples, 125 



bottles, 125 ff 



near-surface bottle, 126 



radiocarbon 14 C results, 92 ff 

 Subtropical 



coastal countercurrents and under- 

 currents, 273 ff 



convergence, 289 ff, 385 



sea-level changes, 494 

 Suess effect, 102, 103 

 Sulfate reduction of organic matter, 43 

 Surface ocean samples, radiocarbon 14 C 



results, 91 

 Surface water, latitudinal variations in 



stability of, 354 ff 

 "Sverdrup" transport, 238, 248 



Tagging and tracer techniques, 118 ff 



Taney survey, 84 



Taxonomy, 417 



Temperature (see also T-S curves) 



chlorinity, relation to, 111 



salinometry, temperature control in, 

 113 

 Thalassia, 376 

 Theonine, 226 

 Theory of food-chain relations in the ocean, 



438 

 Thermometers, Water sampling and, 124 

 Thermometry, 127 

 Thiamine 



importance for phytoplankton, 19f> 



marine algae, requirement in, 1 79 



vitamin assays, 224 ff 

 Thorium 



230 Th activities, 22 



234Th in the 238u series, 2 I 

 Thraustochytrium globosum assay, 195, 



224 

 Thysanoessa, 386 ff, 390 ff, 401 ff 



