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Azores 185, 423, 436, 437 Barra, Sound of 148 Behaim Seamount 484 Bismarck Sea 422, 456, 466, 472 Bonin Trench 456, 464, 466
Azores Plateau 436, 437 Barracuda Fracture Zone 423, Belém Ridge 442 bivalves 279 booby
hotspot 437 429 Belgica Bank 425, 427 anatomy 276 blue-footed 391
Azores–Biscay Rise 429, 436, 437 Barracuda Ridge 441 Belgrano Bank 484 feeding 278 brown 391
Azov, Sea of 439 Barracuda, Great 365 Belitung, Pulau 451, 465 movement 277 Boothia Peninsula 424, 426
Barrel Sponge 260 Belize Barrier Reef 133 Bjørnoya 425, 427 Boothia, Gulf of 424, 426
barrel waves 28–29 Belize coast mangroves 133 Bjornöya Bank 425, 427 bootlace worm 273
barrel-eye 345 Belle Île 437 Black Coast 484 Bora-Bora 476
B barrier islands 93 Belle Isle 431 black mangrove 130, 132, 135 Bora-Bora, Society Islands 88, 92,
Black Sea 422, 429, 439
Belle Isle, Strait of 431
Hatteras Island 95
161, 456
Bab el Mandeb 448 Barrier Reef 440 Bellingshausen Island 445 Black Shields 255 Borchgrevink Coast 485
backshore 106 barrier reefs 152 Bellingshausen Plain 423, 457, black skimmer 398 Borden Island 424, 426
bacteria 232, 233 barriers, tidal 105 483, 484 black smokers 188, 478 Borden Peninsula 426
Baffin Basin 423, 425, 426, 429 Barrow Island 451 Bellingshausen Sea 423, 457, 483, black tar lichen 255 Boreas Plain 425, 427
Baffin Bay 195, 423, 425, 426, Barrow, Point 424 484 black tufted lichen 255 bores see tidal bores
428 basalt 42, 48 Bellona Plateau 473, 481 black-browed albatross 185, 201, boring sponge 217
Baffin Island 423, 426 Giant’s Causeway 95 Bellona Valley 480, 481 378, 387 Borneo 422, 451, 456, 465
Bagre marinus 345 Bashi Channel 465, 466 beluga sturgeon 340 black-footed albatross 386 Bornholm 433
Bahama Banks 156 basins, sedimentary 45 beluga whale 116, 199, 413 black-hawk, common 133 Bosporus 439
Bahama Basin 441 basket stars 306 migration 221 black-legged kittiwake 397 Bothnia, Gulf of 427, 433
Bahama Escarpment 441 basking shark 170, 328 bengal tiger 134 black-lip pearl oyster 280 Botryllus schlosseri 319
Bahamas 440 Bass Strait 112, 447, 456, 480 Bengal, Bay of 422, 447, 450 black-winged stilt 394 bottom-living animals
Pink Sands Beach 108 Bassas da India 454 Benguela Current 59, 98, 148, blackdevil, common 351 invertebrates 313
Bahia Seamount 442 Bassas de Pedro Bank 449 428, 442, 443 blackdragon, Pacific 347 see also benthos
Bahía, Islas de la 440 basslet, orange fairy 162–63 Benham Plateau 465, 466 blackfin icefish 361 Bougainville Island 473
Baja California 469 Batabano, Golfo de 441 Benin, Bight of 443 Blake Abyssal Plain 441 boundary currents 59
Baker Island 476 Batavia Seamount 447, 451 benthos 216–217 Blake Basin 441 Bounty Islands 481
Bakutis Coast 485 batfish, polka-dot 350 burrowing 217 Blake Escarpment 441 Bounty Trough 481
Balabac Strait 465 Bathurst Island 424, 426, 472 fixed 216 Blake Plateau 428, 441 Bowers Bank 458
Balaena mysticetus 408 Bathurst, Cape 424, mobile 216 Blake Spur 441 Bowers Basin 458
Balaenoptera acutorostrata 409 Bathypterois grallator 347 symbiosis 217 Blake-Bahama Ridge 441 Bowers Ridge 458
Balaenoptera musculus 412 Batterbee, Cape 483 Bering Canyon 458 Blanc, Cap 438 Bowers Seamount 458, 459
Balearic Basin 438 Bauer Basin 423, 457, 479 Bering Sea 422, 424, 456, 457, bleaching bowhead whale 408
Balearic Islands 438 Bauer Fracture Zone 479 458, 461 coral 153, 158, 159, 160, 161 box jellyfish 264
baleen 412 Bauer Scarp 479 Bering Strait 201, 422, 424, 457, effect of El Niño 68 boxfish, spotted 366
Bali 451 Bauld, Cape 431 458 Bledius spectabilis 304 Brabant Island 484
Bali Sea 451 Bay of Bengal 134, 450 Beringa, Ostrov 458 blenny brachiopods, Cambrian 227
Balistoides viridescens 366 Bay of Biscay 437 Beringia land bridge 46 spiny-headed 16–17 Brahmaputra delta 134, 450
Ball’s Pyramid 481 Bay of Fundy 80, 126, 431 Berkner Bank 484 tompot 364 brahminy Kkite 393
ballan wrasse 142 mud-shrimp 126 Berkner Island 483, 484 blindfish, gelatinous 183 bramble shark 323
Balleny Islands 456, 483, 485 salt marsh 124 berm 106, 107 bloom Branchiostoma lanceolatus 319
Balleny Seamounts 485 Bay of Pigs 133 Bermuda Platform 156 algal, Chesapeake Bay 116 Bransfield Strait 444, 484
Baltic Sea 119, 429, 432, 433 Baydaratskaya Guba 425 Bermuda Rise 429, 441 plankton 33, 37, 164, 169, Branta bernicla 381
depth 169 baymouth bar 93 Biafra, Bight of 443 427 brant goose 150, 381
wind farming 434, 435 Bazaruto Achipelago 158 Bib 348 blubber 400 Brazil Basin 423, 429, 442
Baltica 44 Bazaruto, Ilha do 454 Big Sur, tectonic uplift 103 blue buttons 262 Brazil Current 59, 428, 442, 444
bamboo, sea 148 beach bigeye jack see bigeye trevally blue mussel see common mussel breadcrumb sponge 259
Bamburgh Beach, tidal range black volcanic 112 bigeye trevally 360, 362–63 blue ridge coral 160 breakers
79 dissipative 106, 108 bigfin reef squid 279 Blue Ridge Seamount 465 plunging 77; see also barrel
Banaba 467, 473 Cox’s Bazar Beach 111 bignose unicornfish 364 blue shark 332 waves; tube waves
Banâs, Râs 448 Jeffreys Bay 110 Bikini Atoll 161, 467 blue swimming crab 301 spilling 77
Banc d’Arguin 110 Ninety Mile Beach 112 bill adaptation, sea birds 378 blue whale 412 breakwaters 105
Banda Sea 422, 451, 456, 465, drift-aligned 106 Bill Baileys Bank 430, 432 migration 417 breezes, offshore and onshore 55
466, 472 embayed 106, 112, 113 Bioco, Isla de 443 blue-footed booby 391 Breidhafjördhur 430
banded archerfish 131 Anjuna Beach 111 biodiversity blue-green algae 233 bristletail
banded coral shrimp 217 gravel 107 continental shelves 140 blue-rayed limpet 147, 148 shore 304
banded snake eel 343 olivine crystals coral reefs 154–55, 211 blue-ringed octopus 288 sea 304
banded-iron formation 43 Mahana Beach 470–471 Shiraho Reef 160 blue-spotted stingray 334 bristleworms 274
bandfish, red 359 pocket 106, 109, 112 hotspots 211 bluecheek butterflyfish 359 Bristol Bay 457, 459
Bangka, Pulau 451, 465 raised 89, 96 Loch Carron 211 bluestripe snapper 161, 359 Bristol Channel 432, 437
Bangladesh, sea-level rise 91 reflective 106, 107 Saba Bank 211 blunt-nosed chimera see spotted Britain 423, 425
bank reefs 152 storm 109 sea-ice 199 ratfish brittlestar
Banks Island 423, 424, 426, 473 swash-aligned 106 seagrass beds 146 bluntnose sixgill shark 325 common 309
Banks Peninsula 481 beach cusps 106 seamounts 175, 211 Bo Hai 464 mangrove 131
Banks Rise 424, 426 beach face 106 biogenic sediment 180 Bobaomby, Tanjona 454 brittlestars 177, 306
Banks Shelf 424, 426 beach morning-glory 252 bioluminescence 36, 224–25, bobbit worm 274 broad fish tapeworm 272
bannerfish, longfin 160, 161 beach nourishment 105 233, 263 Bode Verde Fracture Zone 429, Brodeur Peninsula 424, 426
Banzare Seamounts 447, 483 beach plants 242 common piddock 281 442, 443 Broken Ridge 422, 447
bar, baymouth 93 beaches 106–107 deep-sea cucumber 312 Bogorov Seamount 461 Brosme brosme 349
Baranof Island 459 composition 107 disguise 224 Bohadschia graffei 312 brown bear, Alaskan 129
Barbados Trough 441 types 106 light production 224 Bohai 464 brown booby 391
barbels 345 zones 106 lures 225 Bohai Wan 464 brown noddy 397
beluga sturgeon 340 beadlet anemone 266 stoplight loosejaw 347 Bohol 465, 466 brown pelican 214, 379, 380, 391
gafftopsail sea catfish 345 Beagle Channel 444 vampire squid 289 Bohol Sea 465, 466 brown seaweeds 238–39
nurse shark 323 beaked sea snake 374 biomass pyramid 212 boiler reef 156 brown sargassum 235
barchans, Curonian Spit 119 bear bioturbation, mud 313 boiling point, water 31 Bruce Ridge 445, 484
Barclays Adventurer racing yacht Alaskan brown 129 birds 378–80 Boknafjorden 433 Brunt Ice Shelf 484
57 polar 25, 199, 402 anatomy 378 Bolbometopon muricatum 361 brush-turkey, red-billed 135
Barcoo Tablemount 481 threat of global warming 91 breeding 209, 380 Bollons Tablemount 457, 481, Bryan Coast 484
Bardin Seamount 454 Bear Peninsula 484 classification 209, 380 483 Bryopsis plumosa 246
Barents Plain 425 Beata Ridge 441 feeding 379 Bon, Cap 438 bryozoan
Barents Sea 422, 425, 427 Beaufort Gyre 200, 425 habitat 378 Bonaire 441 gelatinous 305
phytoplankton bloom 427 Beaufort Island 485 migration 380 Bonaire Basin 441 pink lace 305
Barents Trough 425, 427 Beaufort Sea 423, 424, 426 birds of prey 380 Bonaparte Seamount 443 bryozoans 305
Barentsøya 425, 427 Beaufort Shelf 424 Birgus latro 297 Bone Basin 451, 472 bubble shell 286
Barmade Bank 433 Beaufort Slope 424 Biscay Plain 429, 437 Bone, Teluk 451, 472 Buenos Aires 118
Barnacle bee hummingbird 133 Biscay, Bay of 437 bonefish 341 Bufoceratias wedli 350
Acorn 294 bee, dune snail 304 Biscoe Islands 484 Bonellia viridis 314 Buka Island 473
Gooseneck 294 beetle, intertidal rove 304 Bismarck Archipelago 466 bonin petrel 388 bull kelp 150, 151
barnacles 292 Beggiatoa species 232 Bismarck microplate 423, 472 Bonin Ridge 464, 466 Bulldog Bank 454