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The explosion of interest, effort, and information about the ocean since about 1950 has produced many thousand scientific articles and many hun­ dred books. In fact, the outpouring has been so large that authors have been unable to read much of what has been published, so they have tended to concentrate their own work within smaller and smaller subfields of oceanog­ raphy. Summaries of information published in books have taken two main paths. One is the grouping of separately authored chapters into symposia­ type books, with their inevitable overlaps and gaps between chapters. The other is production of lightly researched books containing drawings and tables from previous pUblications, with due credit given but showing assem­ bly-line writing with little penetration of the unknown. Only a few books have combined new and previous data and thoughts into new maps and syntheses that relate the contributions of observed biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes to solve broadproblems associated with the shape, composition, and history of the oceans. Such a broad synthesis is the objective of this book, in which we tried to bring together many of the pieces of research that were deemed to be of manageable size by their originators. The composite may form a sort of plateau above which later studies can rise, possibly benefited by our assem­ bly of data in the form of new maps and figures.

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Author:   Kenneth O. Emery ,  Elazar Uchupi
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   1st ed. 1984
Weight:   2.480kg
ISBN:  

9781461297680

ISBN 10:   1461297680
Pages:   1050
Publication Date:   21 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Exploration.- Ancient Man.- Early North African and European Voyages.- European Voyages after 1400 A.D..- 2. Physiography.- Historical Development.- Hypsometry.- Physiographic Diagrams.- Land Areas.- Coasts and Shores.- Seacliffs.- Estuaries and Lagoons.- Continental Shelves.- Continental Slopes.- Large Deltas and Deep-Ocean Cones.- Continental Rises.- Abyssal Plains.- Abyssal Aprons.- Spreading (Primary) Ridges and Fracture Zones.- Convergence Ridges.- Aseismic Ridges.- Active Volcanoes.- Seamounts and Guyots.- Troughs.- Trenches.- 3. Internal Igneous Structure.- Historical Development.- Core.- Mantle.- Oceanic Crust (Layer 3).- Basaltic Layer (Layer 2).- Continental Crust.- 4. The Syn-Rift Supersequence and Crustal Boundary.- Pangaea and Its Construction.- Breakup of Pangaea.- Continental/Oceanic Crustal Boundary.- 5. Drift Supersequence.- Background.- Southern North Atlantic.- 6. Sediment Provenance and Properties.- General.- Present Volumes.- Volumes for Entire Earth.- Compaction.- Original Volumes.- Rates of Deposition of Total Sediments.- Sources.- Pathways.- Composition and Provenance of Surface Layer.- 7. Evolution of the Ocean Floor.- Purpose.- Basins.- Main Events in History of Atlantic Ocean.- 8. Interfaces Between Ocean and Man.- Historical Background.- Food Supply.- Water Supply.- Transportation.- Building Materials.- Building Sites.- Waste Disposal.- Petroleum.- Energy in Water.- Hard Minerals.- Ownership.

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