The Sea Floor An Introduction to Marine Geology
Man's understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years. This great revolution in geology - now usually subsumed under the concept of Plate Tectonics - brought the realization that convection within the Earth is responsible for th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1993, 1993
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 1993 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Origin and Morphology of Ocean Basins
- 2 Origin and Morphology of Ocean Margins
- 3 Sources and Composition of Marine Sediments
- 4 Effects of Waves and Currents
- 5 Sea Level Processes and Effects of Sea Level Change
- 6 Productivity and Benthic Organisms — Distribution, Activity, and Environmental Reconstruction
- 7 Imprint of Climatic Zonation on Marine Sediments
- 8 Deep-Sea Sediments — Patterns, Processes, and Stratigraphic Methods
- 9 Paleoceanography — The Deep-Sea Record
- 10 Resources from the Ocean Floor
- Epilog
- List of Books and Symposia
- A1 Conversion Between Common US Units and Metric Units
- A2 Topographic Statistics
- A3 The Geologic Time Scale
- A4 Common Minerals
- A5 Grain Size Classification for Sediments
- A6 Common Rock Types
- A7 Geochemical Statistics
- A8 Radio-Isotopes and Dating
- A9 Systematic Overview for Major Groups of Common Marine Organisms Important in Sea floor Processes
- Index of Names