Defining the Pacific

Contents: Introduction; Perspectives on the Pacific: Sea and ocean basins as frameworks of historical analysis, Jerry H. Bentley; The Pacific as an artefact, O.H.K. Spate; The other one-third of the globe, Ben Finney; Geographic setting of the Pacific, Otis W. Freeman; Geology, Geophysics, and the Evolution of the Pacific Basin: Development of the circum-Pacific Panthalassic Ocean during the early Paleozoic, Christopher R. Scotese; Reconstructions of the circum-Pacific region, D.B. Rowley; Terrane analysis: a circum-Pacific overview, David G. Howell and David L. Jones; Linear volcanic chains on the Pacific plate, Everett D. Jackson; Some remarks on the occurrence of Tsunamigenic earthquakes around the Pacific, Kumizi Iida; Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeography: Oceanography, Lynn D. Talley, Gerard J. Fryer and Rick Lumpkin; Historical and prehistorical overview of El NiA+/-o/Southern Oscillation, David B. Enfield; Paleogeographic conclusions in light of biological data, J. Wyatt Durham; Biogeographic mosaics in the Pacific, Jared Diamond; Human Settlement, Diffusion, and Early Trans-Pacific Contacts: The peopling of the Pacific, P. S. Bellwood; Routes: alternative migration corridors for early man in North America, K. R. Fladmark; Linguistic evidence in support of the coastal route of earliest entry into the New World, Ruth Gruhn; Movement of people and ideas across the Pacific, George F. Carter; Index.