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1993 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Imprint of Climatic Zonation on Marine Sediments
Authors : Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Eugen Seibold, Prof. Wolfgang H. Berger, Ph.D.
Published in: The Sea Floor
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The chief factor in producing climatic zonation is the amount of energy received from the sun — it is high in the tropics, low at the poles (Fig. 7.1). A coarsely latitudinal zonation of the oceans generally employs the categories tropical, subtropical, temperate, and polar, whereby the poleward part of temperate and the more temperate part of polar could be distinguished as subpolar (Fig. 7.2).