Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The water in seawater
- 3 Salinity, chlorinity, conductivity, and density
- 4 Major constituents of seawater
- 5 Simple gases
- 6 Salts in solution
- 7 Carbon dioxide
- 8 Nutrients
- 9 Trace metals and other minor elements
- 10 Radioactive clocks
- 11 Organic matter in the sea
- 12 Anoxic marine environments
- 13 Exchanges at the boundaries
- 14 Chemical extraction of useful substances from the sea
- 15 Geochemical history of the oceans
- Appendix A The chemical elements
- Appendix B Symbols, units, and nomenclature
- Appendix C Physical properties of seawater
- Appendix D Gases
- Appendix E Carbon dioxide
- Appendix F Dissociation constants and pH scales
- Appendix G Solubility of calcium carbonate
- Appendix H Effects of pressure
- Appendix I Radioactive decay
- Appendix J Geochemical reservoirs, and some rates
- Appendix K Sound absorption
- Epilogue
- Questions for chapters
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Miscellaneous end matter
Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The water in seawater
- 3 Salinity, chlorinity, conductivity, and density
- 4 Major constituents of seawater
- 5 Simple gases
- 6 Salts in solution
- 7 Carbon dioxide
- 8 Nutrients
- 9 Trace metals and other minor elements
- 10 Radioactive clocks
- 11 Organic matter in the sea
- 12 Anoxic marine environments
- 13 Exchanges at the boundaries
- 14 Chemical extraction of useful substances from the sea
- 15 Geochemical history of the oceans
- Appendix A The chemical elements
- Appendix B Symbols, units, and nomenclature
- Appendix C Physical properties of seawater
- Appendix D Gases
- Appendix E Carbon dioxide
- Appendix F Dissociation constants and pH scales
- Appendix G Solubility of calcium carbonate
- Appendix H Effects of pressure
- Appendix I Radioactive decay
- Appendix J Geochemical reservoirs, and some rates
- Appendix K Sound absorption
- Epilogue
- Questions for chapters
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Miscellaneous end matter
Summary
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture in the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all that I may be or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin – his control
Stops with the shore; – upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.
His steps are not upon thy paths – thy fields
Are not a spoil for him – thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send’st him shivering in thy playful spray,
And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth – there let him lay.
The armaments which thunderstrike the walls
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs tremble in their capitals,
The oak leviatians, whose huge ribs make
Their creator the vain title take
Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war;
These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake,
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar
Alike the Armada’s pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee –
Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?
Thy waters washed them power while they were free,
And many a tyrant since; their shores obey
The stranger, slave or savage; their decay
Has dried up realms to deserts: – not so thou,
Unchangeable save to thy wild waves play –
Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow –
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
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- An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea , pp. 467 - 470Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012