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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).
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Seibold, E., Berger, W.H. (1993). Imprint of Climatic Zonation on Marine Sediments. In: The Sea Floor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22519-6_8
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