An Oceanic Quest The International Decade of Ocean Exploration. (1969) / Chapter Skim
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Relation between Ocean Uses and Decade Programs In the program chapters of this report, the rationale is presented for investigations in the disciplinary groups of geology-geophysics, biology, physics and geochemistry. In each chapter are included a number of representative programs of both scientific and applied interest.
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other potential resources include phosphorite on the shelf and upper slopes, and manganese nodules on the deep ocean floor. It is also known that petroleum in some regions is present beyond the shelf, although It cannot be exploited by present techniques.
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expected to be living by the year 2000. United States landings in 19 67 were 2.4 million tons, l i t t le different from the catch thirty years ago.
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dredging spoil , and so on. Both deliberate disposal and inadvertent discharge (as of pesticides and oily wastes)
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annual world ocean freight b i l l could be as large as $15 bi l l ion , of which the United States w i l l pay about one-third. To carry this freight, there were in 1966 a total of 25,620 vessels larger than 300 gross tons (with 1810 more under construction)
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