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water cont. West Mariana Basin 467 whip coral 270 worm Yellow River, suspended sand
molecules 30–31 West Mariana Ridge 467 whipray, reticulate 333 bootlace 273 464
origin 43 West Wind Drift 482 whirlpools 79, 80–83 football Jersey 273 Yellow Sea 422, 456, 464,
properties 30–31 westerlies 54, 425, 428, 447, Strait of Messina 438 ribbon 273 466
as solvent 32 457 White Cliffs of Dover 96, worms yellow shrimp goby 364
stratification, Hardanger Fiord Western Algarve, marine erosion 180 ribbon 273 yellow splash lichen 255
119 97 white mangrove 130, 132 roundworms 313 yellow-bellied sea snake 374
surface tension 30 Western Interior Seaway white sea whip 265 segmented 274 yellow-lipped sea krait 368,
three states 31 45 white shark 329, 330–31 wrack 374
water bear Western Mediterranean white smokers 188 knotted 239 Yermak Plateau 425, 427
Echiniscoides 316 438 white tern 397 spiral 234 Yolanda, typhoon see Haiyan,
Pseudobiotus 316 whale white whale see beluga whale wrasse typhoon
water bears 313 beluga 116, 199, 413 white zoanthid 270 ballan 142 York, Cape 472
water cycle, global 64–65 migration 221 white-bellied sea eagle 393 cleaner 361 Yos Sudarso, Pulau 472
water flea 293 blue 412 whitetip reef shark 332 cuckoo 361 Younghusband Peninsula 121
water monitor 134, 377 migration 417 whitetip soldierfish 352 reproduction 338 Yucatan Basin 441
water quality, Chesapeake Bay bowhead 408, 417 Wilson’s storm petrel 389 wreckfish 358 Yucatan Channel 440
116 cuvier’s Beaked 413 wind farming 435 wrecks see shipwrecks Yucatan Escarpment 440
water striders 30 gray 408 Baltic 434, 435 wren Yucatan Peninsula 440
water twister 31 migration 417 windrows, Langmuir circulation marsh 127 Yukon River 458
water vapor, early Earth 43 humpback 408, 410–11, cells 61 zapata 133 Yupanqui Basin 423, 457, 479
waterfall, submarine 182 416 winds Wuhan Bridge 122
waterspouts 71 feeding 200–201 Arctic Ocean 425
wave-cut platforms 89 migration 417 Atlantic Ocean 428
wave-erosion 93 song 37, 409 Indian Ocean 447 Z
wavelength 76 killer 415 monitoring 54 X
waves minke 409 ocean 54–55 Zalophus californianus 403
barrel 28–29 narwhal 421 Pacific Ocean 457 Xaafuun, Raas 449 Zambezi Canyon 454
breaking 77 northern bottlenose 413 polar northeasterlies and Xanthoria parietina 255 Zanzibar 446, 454
giant, effect of El Niño 68 northern right 408 southeasterlies 54, 425, Xenia elongata 265 Zapata rail 133
internal 76 Pacific gray 123, 460 483 Xestospongia testudinaria 260 Zapata Swamp 133
ocean 76–77 pilot, long-finned 418 pressure-system 55 Xi Jiang River 122 Zapata wren 133
generation 76 southern right 408 effect of El Niño/La Niña Zapiola Ridge 429
propagation 76 migration 417 68–69 zebra nerite 284
properties 76 sperm 222, 412 prevailing 54, 58 zebra shark 327
refraction 77 white see whale, beluga von Karman vortices 52–53 Y Zenkevich Rise 461
rogue 76 whale shark 256, 328 Roaring Forties 54 Zephyr Bank 476
shoaling 77 whale song 37, 409 role in wave generation 76 yacht racing 56–57 Zephyr Reef 473
standing 79, 82 whale stranding 418 southeast monsoon 457 Yaghan Basin 429, 444 Zeus faber 353
see also tsunamis whale watching 123, 417 Southern Ocean 482, 483 Yaku-shima 464, 466 Zheng He Seamount 449
Weddell Sea 484 whales southwest monsoon 447 Yamato Basin 460, 461, 464 Ziphius cavirostris 413
Weddell Seal 199, 222, 405 early 228 trade 54, 428, 447, 457 Yamato Ridge 460, 461, 464 zircon 42
wedge-tailed shearwater, echolocation 37, 400 westerlies 54, 425, 428, 447, Yamato Seamount 461 zoanthid, white 270
migration 389 migration 417 457, 482, 483 Yangtze Estuary 122, 464 zooplankton 181, 214, 317
Wegener, Alfred (1880–1930) 44, navigation 417 wobbegong, tasselled 327 Yap 465, 466 sunlit zone 169–70
45 whaling 401, 408 Woese, Carl (born 1928) Yap Trench 465, 466 vertical migration 221
Wellington, New Zealand, tides Faroe Islands 418 232 Yatsu-Higata tidal flat 129 zooxanthellae 153, 261
79 South Georgia 445 wolf-fish 361 Yelcho Canyon 484 Zostera capensis 148
West African manatee 418 whelk, dog 284 wood stork 132 Yellow Bluff Tide Rip 82 Zostera marina 148, 150
West Indian manatee 419 whimbrel 395 world oceans 422–23 yellow horned-poppy 252 Zubov Seamount 443, 467