Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Second Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of significant developments in marine biology, marine chemistry, marine geology, marine pollution, and physical oceanography. Containing more than 500 pages of selected physical, chemical, and biological reference data on the ocean environment, the book investigates current knowledge and recent advances pertaining to the sea. It addresses natural phenomena in estuaries, lagoons, continental shelves, continental slopes, continental rises, abyssal regions, mid-ocean ridges, along with neritic and pelagic waters of the ocean. The book also examines in detail anthropogenic effects on estuarine and marine ecosystems from local, regional, and global perspectives.