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The Sea Floor. An Introduction to Marine Geology.
Seibold, Eugen; Berger, Wolfgang H.
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Description for The Sea Floor. An Introduction to Marine Geology.
Hardback. Designed to acquaint students with the important results achieved in marine geology and the scientists who brought them about, this work summarizes insights into tectonics and marine morphology, the geological processes at work on the sea floor, and the Earth's climatic history as recorded in deep sea sediments. Num Pages: 358 pages, 9 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: RBG; RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
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 the origin of today's ocean basins and conti nents, and that the grand features of the Earth's surface are the product of ongoing large-scale horizontal motions. Some of these notions were put forward earlier in this century (by A. Wegener, in 1912, and by A. Holmes, in 1929), but most of the ... Read more
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 the origin of today's ocean basins and conti nents, and that the grand features of the Earth's surface are the product of ongoing large-scale horizontal motions. Some of these notions were put forward earlier in this century (by A. Wegener, in 1912, and by A. Holmes, in 1929), but most of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540601913
SKU
V9783540601913
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Reviews for The Sea Floor. An Introduction to Marine Geology.
"This book is extremely readable for a non-geologist and is an extremely valuable source of information for all marine biologists interested in the interaction of their field with earth sciences." - Marine Ecology "Seibold and Berger's book is a classic!" - Geo Journal