Tons and tons

Usage examples of oceans.

Those boats she could see now, those fisherwomen out on their feluccas beyond the white bands of breaking waves, their whole lives were dictated by these uncertainties, and the habits of the shoals of whiteback that came and went on the oceans, and which could also only be guessed at in this same approximate way.

Sunrays glinted by day from the young oceans, dazzling the eyes on Earth.

And continents, and winds, and oceans deep, All shapes might throng to share, that fly, or walk or creep,-- 56.

Bright as that wandering Eden Lucifer, Washed by the soft blue Oceans of young air.

Great form is in a watery eclipse Obliterated from the Oceans page, And round its wreck the huge sea-monsters sit, A horrid conclave, and the whistling wave Is heaped over its carcase, like a grave.

Earth continued to be pelted relentlessly by comets, meteorites, and other galactic debris, which brought water to fill the oceans and the components necessary for the successful formation of life.

Among much else, he suggested the method that led directly to the invention of refrigeration, devised the scale of absolute temperature that still bears his name, invented the boosting devices that allowed telegrams to be sent across oceans, and made innumerable improvements to shipping and navigation, from the invention of a popular marine compass to the creation of the first depth sounder.

Animal fossils repeatedly turned up on opposite sides of oceans that were clearly too wide to swim.

Nearly all geology texts tell you that continental crust is three to six miles thick under the oceans, about twenty-five miles thick under the continents, and forty to sixty miles thick under big mountain chains, but there are many puzzling variabilities within these generalizations.

Most oceans are of course much shallower, but even at the average ocean depth of two and a half miles the pressure is equivalent to being squashed beneath a stack of fourteen loaded cement trucks.

Indeed, meteorologists increasingly treat oceans and atmosphere as a single system, which is why we must give them a little of our attention here.

If it lacked this splendid waywardness, ice would sink, and lakes and oceans would freeze from the bottom up.

But if all the water in the atmosphere fell as rain, evenly everywhere, the oceans would deepen by only an inch.

Tides, winds, the Coriolis force, and other effects alter water levels considerably from one ocean to another and within oceans as well.

Until well into the nineteenth century most of what was known about the oceans was based on what washed ashore or came up in fishing nets, and nearly all that was written was based more on anecdote and supposition than on physical evidence.