Contents 



7 Foreword Charles G. Groat 



2 Beyond the Golden Gate Introduction Herman A. Karl and Edward Ueber 



4 Techniques and Technology of Exploration in the Gulf of the Farallones Kaye Kinoshita and John L. Chin 



6 Oceanography and Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones 



8 Regional Setting John L. Chin and Russell W. Graymer 



12 Earthquakes, Faults, and Tectonics Holly F. Ryan, Stephanie L. Ross, and Russell W. Graymer 



16 Landscape of the Sea Floor Herman A. Karl and William C. Schwab 



20 Current Patterns Over the Continental Shelf and Slope Marlene A. Noble 



24 Sediment of the Sea Floor Herman A. Karl 



26 Chemical Composition of Surface Sediments on the Sea Floor Walter E. Dean and James V. Gardner 



28 Heavy-Mineral Provinces on the Continental Shelf Florence L. Wong 



30 Biology and Ecological Niches in the Gulf of the Farallones 



32 Pliytoplankton Gregg W. Langlois and Patricia Smith 



36 Krill Dan Howard 



40 Free-Floating Larvae of Crabs, Sea Urchins, and Rockfishes Stephen R. Wing 



42 Salmon Peter Adams 



44 Seabirds Peter Pyle 



48 Marine Mammals Jan Roletto 



52 White Sharks Scot Anderson 



56 Continental Slope Communities Tom Laidig 



60 Issues of Environmental Management in the Gulf of the Farallones 



62 Disposal of Dredged Material and Other Waste on the Continental Shelf and Slope John L Chin and Allan Ota 



66 Search for Containers of Radioactive Waste on the Sea Floor Herman A. Karl 



68 Measuring Radioactivity from Waste Drums on the Sea Floor David G. Jones, Philip D. Roberts, and Johannes Limburg 



72 Further Reading 



72 Oceanography and Geology 



73 Biology 



75 Environmental Issues 



77 Glossary 



Back pocket CD-ROM containing full-length technical version of Circular 1198 



