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The Sea Floor

An Introduction to Marine Geology

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  • © 1993

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  1. Eugen Seibold

    1. Geologisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  2. Wolfgang H. Berger

    1. Geological Research Division, Scripps Institution of Ocenaography, La Jolla, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 1-14

  3. Origin and Morphology of Ocean Basins

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 15-40

  4. Origin and Morphology of Ocean Margins

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 41-67

  5. Sources and Composition of Marine Sediments

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 69-95

  6. Effects of Waves and Currents

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 97-125

  7. Sea Level Processes and Effects of Sea Level Change

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 127-155

  8. Productivity and Benthic Organisms — Distribution, Activity, and Environmental Reconstruction

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 157-184

  9. Imprint of Climatic Zonation on Marine Sediments

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 185-213

  10. Deep-Sea Sediments — Patterns, Processes, and Stratigraphic Methods

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 215-240

  11. Paleoceanography — the Deep-Sea Record

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 241-275

  12. Resources from the Ocean Floor

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 277-302

  13. Epilog

    • Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang H. Berger
    Pages 303-306

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 307-356
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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 new ideas were an outgrowth of the study of the ocean floor after World War II. In its impact on the earth sciences, the plate tectonics revolution is comparable to the upheaval wrought by the ideas of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), which started the intense discussion on the evolution of the biospere that has recently heated up again. Darwin drew his inspiration from observations on island life made during the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), and his work gave strong impetus to the first global oceanographic expedition, the voyage of HMS Challenger (1872- 1876). Ever since, oceanographic research has been intimately associ­ ated with fundamental advances in the knowledge of Earth. This should come as no surprise. After all, our planet's surface is mostly ocean.

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"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

Authors and Affiliations

  • Geologisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Eugen Seibold

  • Geological Research Division, Scripps Institution of Ocenaography, La Jolla, USA

    Wolfgang H. Berger

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