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	Ross Sea:
		The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.
		In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt.
		In the west of the Ross sea, McMurdo Sound is a port which is usually free of ice during the summer.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Ross_Sea (167 words)

	Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ross is a goldmining town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
		Ross is a town in the midlands of Tasmania, Australia.
		Ross Sea, a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ross (216 words)

	Ross Island - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross Island is a volcanic island in the Ross Sea by Antarctica, on the coast of Victoria Land.
		Sir James Clark Ross discovered it in 1841, and the island was later named in honor of him by Robert F. Scott.
		Ross Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, which is claimed by New Zealand (unrecognized by the USA).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Ross_Island (160 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Ross Sea @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ROSS SEA [Ross Sea] arm of the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.
		Ross Island with Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, is in the western part of the sea; Roosevelt Island is in the east.
		The Ross Sea's southern extension is the Ross Ice Shelf, a great frozen area whose 400-mi (644-km) seaward side is the source of huge icebergs.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:RossSea&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (209 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: James Clark Ross
		Ross first thought it to be an ice-blink (a whiteness in the sky caused by the reflection of ice ahead) but as they approached they realized the ice-blink was actually a mountainous, snow-covered land.
		Ross realized there was no possible penetration further as Ross stated that "we might with equal chance of success try to sail through the cliffs of Dover, as to penetrate such a mass".
		Ross was delighted and took pleasure in the fact that their efforts had been "unattended by casualty, calamity, or sickness of any kind, and that every individual on both ships had been permitted to return in perfect health and safety to this southern home".
	www.south-pole.com /p0000081.htm (2145 words)

	Learn more about Sea in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A sea (pronounced see) is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean.
		The term is also used for large, usually saline, lakes that lack a natural outlet, such as the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Galilee.
		The term is used in a less geographically precise manner as synonymous with ocean, as in the tropical sea or down to the sea shore, or even sea water referring to water of the ocean.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/se/sea.html (263 words)

	The Antarctic Sun - Spring blooms in the Ross Sea - 120703 Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the summer, the Ross Sea is the marine equivalent of a jungle.
		The Ross Sea area is particularly fertile because patterns of wind and current create a polynya, a hole in the sea ice, open almost year round.
		When the Phaeocystis blooms in the Ross Sea, the water turns brown and concentrations of chlorophyll in the water increase to 10 to 15 micrograms per liter, from a normal chlorophyll level of 0.05 micrograms per liter.
	www.polar.org /antsun/oldissues2003-2004/Sun120703/springBlooms.htm (1626 words)

	Ross Sea
		Ross Sea is located in southern Antarctica in the New Zealand sector.
		Ross Island with Mount Erebus, an active volcano, is located in the western part of the sea, while Roosevelt Island is more sited to the East.
		The Ross Sea ocean-gyre features a pronounced single cell, clockwise flow structure, which is caused by the deflection of the Antarctic Coastal Current as it meets the western side of the Ross Sea embayment.
	www.lighthouse-foundation.org /lighthouse-foundation.org/eng/maproom/ross_sea.shtml (320 words)

	DIALOG Dissertation Abstracts
		The variation physical environments in the Ross Sea are important analogues for past and future changes in climate and may be very helpful in understanding past and future changes in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and carbon throughout the southern ocean.
		The regime in the southwestern Ross Sea (Region I) had relatively shallow mixed layers and was dominated by diatom growth, as evidenced by a silicate (Def(Si)) to NCP ratio (0.11+0.04) similar to the silicate to carbon ratio found in diatoms growing in temperate regions.
		With the onset of the bloom in the southwestern Ross Sea, decrease observed in the nutrients and the carbon dioxide concentrations below the winter values is due primarily to dilution by ice melt and biological utilization.
	www.aslo.org /phd/dialog/199909-1.html (802 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ross Sea
		Map of Antarctica Marie Byrd Land is the portion of Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast.
		Map of Ross Island Ross Island is a volcanic island in the Ross Sea by Antarctica, on the coast of Victoria Land.
		A volcano is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where magma (rock of the Earths interior made molten or liquid by extremely high temperatures along with a reduction in pressure and/or the introduction of water or other volatiles) erupts through the surface of the planet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ross-Sea (537 words)

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		Radiocarbon dates obtained from Ross Sea sediments, combined with constraints on maximum ice extent based on piston core data and ice sheet modeling results, indicate that Antarctica is unlikely to have been the exclusive contributor to melt-water pulse (mwp) IA (ca.
		Thus the Ross Sea region was still in the process of retreating at the time of mwp-IB and was likely a contributor to sea level rise at that time.
		Marine geologic data from across the Ross Sea indicate that ice did not reach the continental shelf break in the western Ross Sea and did not achieve an equilibrium configuration.
	igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov /wais/pastmeetings/abstracts00/Licht.htm (474 words)

	Ross Sea
		Considerably larger than either the United States or Europe, and twice the size of Australia, the continent is surrounded by a frozen sea that varies from one million square miles in summer to 7.3 million square miles in winter.
		The ship’s historian recounts the heroic tales of the Ross Sea and Antarctica.
		Ross Ice Shelf: At the Ross Ice Shelf, which is roughly the same size as France, if conditions permit, the ship will sail between massive tabular icebergs, some nearly 60 miles long.
	www.50plusexpeditions.com /Destinations/Antarctica/RossSea.htm (1769 words)

	Ross Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the west of the Ross is Ross Island with the Mt. Eberus volcano in the east Roosevelt Island.
		the west of the Ross sea McMurdo is a port which is usually free ice during the summer.
		Arctic Whalers, Icy Seas: Narratives of the Davis Strait Whale Fishery
	www.freeglossary.com /Ross_sea (241 words)

	Ecology 2000 ross sea ecology springer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.ecology-online.info /2000-ross-sea-ecology-springer.htm (252 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Unusual Ice Conditions In Ross Sea
		Seasonal sea ice in Antarctica’s Ross Sea has refused to take summer’s hint, and is blocking the route used by re-supply ships bound for McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation’s research hub on Antarctica.
		This year, however, unusually high levels of ice persisted in the Ross Sea despite the advancing summer season, impeding the passage to Ross Island, where the research station is located.
		Ross Island, seen at the lower lefthand corner of the images, is engulfed by the outer reaches of the Ross Ice Shelf (bottom).
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10894 (424 words)

	Luyendyk et al Colbeck Ross Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This region and western Marie Byrd Land are at the eastern limit of the Ross Sea rift, part of the West Antarctic rift system, one of the larger regions of extended crust in the world.
		The Ross Sea continental shelf west of Cape Colbeck and the Edward VII Peninsula in western Marie Byrd Land was investigated using marine geophysics during cruise 9601 of the research vessel ice breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer.
		Early Tertiary extension in the western Ross Sea rift is not strongly reflected in the east side of the rift.
	projects.crustal.ucsb.edu /caperoberts/Colbeckabstract.html (570 words)

	FOG Exhibit 7, The Ross Sea Cores
		FOG claims that the implication of these differences is that the Ross Sea was free of ice and the coasts of Antarctic was unglaciated when the source maps used by Oronteus Finaeus were charted.
		Since FOG relies completely on Hapgood (1966) for his data and conclusions concerning the significance of the Ross Sea Cores of Hough (1950), then the claims by FOG concerning the interpretation of the Ross Sea cores of Hough (1950) are also incorrect.
		Furthermore, without the Ross Sea cores as evidence, there appears to be a well defined lack of any physical evidence that Antarctica could ever have been mapped in an ice-free state during the last 40,000 to 100,000 years.
	www.intersurf.com /~chalcedony/FOG3.html (2154 words)

	The Ross Sea
		The Ross Sea, a marginal Antarctic sea south of New Zealand, has been studied since the days of the Scott/Amundsen expeditions.
		The Sea's relatively low species diversity reduces the complexity of food-web analyses, and its pronounced spring phytoplankton bloom provides a readily observable signal.
		The oceanography of the Ross Sea is relatively well known, including its physical oceanography and hydrography, nutrient concentrations, and phytoplankton biomass and species composition.
	www.vims.edu /bio/ivars/ross_sea.html (332 words)

	Changes in circulation, water mass distribution and ice shelf basal melting in the Ross Sea due to the presence of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The southwestern Ross Sea is the formation site for the densest shelf waters on the Antarctic continental shelf due to its persistent and well-developed polynyas.
		In the subsequent years the area of the Ross Sea polynya has been significantly reduced, with B-15A and C-16 blocking the sea ice drift in the steady southerly winds out of the McMurdo Sound region.
		We use a sub-ice shelf-ocean model coupled to a sea ice model is used to investigate the effect of these large icebergs on the ice-ocean system in the southwestern Ross Sea.
	igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov /wais/pastmeetings/abstracts04/Assmann.htm (748 words)

	PROVENANCE OF ROSS SEA TILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The coarse sand fraction of East Antarctic till is dominantly composed of angular intermediate to mafic lithic fragments, fine-grained quartz-rich detrital sediments, rounded quartz, rounded metamorphosed carbonate lithic fragments, angular pyroxene, and rounded feldspar grains.
		Adjacent western Ross Sea till exhibits compositional similarities with East Antarctica tills with the exception that several western Ross Sea samples containing higher percentages of felsic and sedimentary lithic fragments.
		Therefore, we conclude from the sand petrography of Ross Sea till that both the East and West Antarctic ice sheets contributed to the expansion of LGM-age ice into the central Ross Sea.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_55816.htm (474 words)

	The Ross Sea, Locarnini, Quarterdeck 3.1
		The Ross Gyre extends from the surface to the deep ocean, and is approximately one half to one third as strong as the Weddell Gyre.
		The salinity of the cold shelf waters of the Ross Sea increases westward.
		The salty CDW influence reaches the surface layer in the western Ross Sea, and I believe this influence is instrumental in the formation of high salinity shelf waters found there.
	www-ocean.tamu.edu /Quarterdeck/QD3.1/Locarnini/locarnini.html (584 words)

	Ross Sea -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The sea is a generally shallow marine region, approximately 370,000 sq mi (960,000 sq km) in area, centred at about 75° S, 175° W, and lying between Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land on the west and Cape Colbeck…
		The sea is a generally shallow marine region, approximately 370,000 sq mi (960,000 sq km) in area, centred at about 75° S, 175° W, and lying between Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land...
		Provides details of sea creatures, facts about oceans such as their geographical locations, size, ports, and the area that they cover across the continents.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064144?tocId=9064144&query=mcmurdo (940 words)

	Research in the Ross Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The overall goal of our research is to use the marine sedimentary record to determine the glacial history and paleoceanography of the Ross Sea from the last glacial maximum to the present.
		In order to determine the maximum extent of grounded ice in the central Ross Sea during the LGM, we are completing sedimentological and foraminiferal analyses of diamictons to distinguish between subglacial till and glacial marine sediments.
		The use of modern and fossil diatom assemblages as climate proxies in the central and western Ross Sea, Antarctica (M.S. thesis): Boulder, University of Colorado, 250p.
	instaar.colorado.edu /groups/echol/lichtresearch.html (799 words)

	Environmental protection of soils of the Ross Sea region Programme
		The outcome of this research is improved environmental protection of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.
		The LGP is aimed at increasing understanding of the coastal ecosystems that exist along the Victoria Land coastline in the Ross Sea region, and describing potential environmental variability that may occur in the future.
		Soil climate stations at 7 locations in the Ross Sea region will continue to be maintained for at least 10 years.
	www.landcareresearch.co.nz /research/rurallanduse/antarcticsoilsprog.asp (441 words)

	Ross Sea on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neonatal growth of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups in Alaska.
		Influence of the Consumption of Fatty Baltic Sea Fish on Plasma Levels of Halogenated Environmental Contaminants in Latvian and Swedish Men.
		Rory Ross, an annual visitor, sets the scene and gives some insider tips on where to go, what to wear and what not to...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RossS1ea.asp (580 words)

	Ross Sea Tides
		We have two primary interests in Ross Sea tides: (1) the role of tides in iceberg calving and subsequent motion and interaction between new icebergs and the remaining ice shelf; and (2) the role of tides in mixing and cross-slope exchange processes at the shelf break and Antarctic Slope Front.
		Tides in the Ross Sea are predominantly diurnal, based on both gravimetric data from the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) [ Williams and Robinson, 1980] and numerical models [e.g., MacAyeal, 1984; Le Provost et al., 1998; Padman and Kottmeier, 2000].
		Tide heights are largest in the eastern Ross Sea under the RIS but, even there, are much smaller than in the cavity under the Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelves in the southern Weddell Sea [ Robertson et al., 1998].
	www.esr.org /antarctic/rossseatides.html (794 words)

	Columbia Earth Institute - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The freshening was initially observed on the Ross Sea continental shelf and then found to extend north and east over the much larger Ross Gyre.
		The salinity decrease in the Ross Sea is larger than the 'Great Salinity Anomaly' of the North Atlantic Ocean, but occurs mostly at shallower levels.
		Nonetheless, there are indications that the Ross Sea salinity decline has influenced the properties of bottom waters south of Australia.
	www.earth.columbia.edu /news/story07_18_02.html (581 words)

	Ross Sea
		on the western side of Ross Sea, is usually free of pack ice in late summer; it has been the most important staging point for exploration and scientific investigation.
		Ross Island - Ross Island, in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
		Marie Byrd Land - Marie Byrd Land, area of W Antarctica, E of the Ross Shelf Ice and the Ross Sea and S of the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0842478.html (243 words)

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