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Sea Surface Studies

A Global View

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. R. J. N. Devoy

    1. Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: First Principles and the Scope of Sea-surface Studies

    1. Introduction: First Principles and the Scope of Sea-surface Studies

      • R. J. N. Devoy
      Pages 1-30

  3. Sea-surface (Sea-level) Changes: What Are They?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Ocean Volume Change and the History of Sea Water

      • John Chappell
      Pages 33-56

    3. Mechanisms of Relative Sea-level Change and the Geophysical Responses to Ice-water Loading

      • W. R. Peltier
      Pages 57-94

    4. Glaciation and Sea Level: A Case Study

      • John T. Andrews
      Pages 95-126

    5. Tectonic Processes and their Impact on the Recording of Relative Sea-level Changes

      • Kelvin Berryman
      Pages 127-161

  4. The Evidence and Interpretation of Sea-surface (Sea-level) Movements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Dating and Associated Methodological Problems in the Study of Quaternary Sea-level Changes

      • Donald G. Sutherland
      Pages 165-197

    3. Global Analysis and Correlation of Sea-level Data

      • Ian Shennan
      Pages 198-230

  5. The State of Current Knowledge: Regional and Global Views

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Pre-Quaternary Long-Term Changes in Sea Level

      • Nils-Axel Mörner
      Pages 233-241

    3. Quaternary Sea-level Changes: Northern Hemisphere Data

      • Nils-Axel Mörner
      Pages 242-263

    4. Quaternary Sea-level Changes: Southern Hemisphere Data

      • B. Pillans
      Pages 264-293

    5. Sea-level Changes During the Holocene: The North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans

      • R. J. N. Devoy
      Pages 294-347

    6. Sea-level Changes during the Holocene: The Northwest Pacific

      • Yoko Ota
      Pages 348-374

    7. Holocene Sea-level Changes in Australasia and the Southern Pacific

      • David Hopley
      Pages 375-408

  6. An Introduction to Parts Four and Five

    1. The Impact and Application of Sea-surface Changes

      • R. J. N. Devoy
      Pages 409-411

  7. The Coastline: Processes, Planning and Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 413-413
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    2. Coastal Processes: The Coastal Response to Sea-level Variation

      • J. Orford
      Pages 415-463
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About this book

The oceans are vast with t,¥o-thirds of our planet being covered by a thick layer of water, the depth of which can be likened to flying above the earth's surface at an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,800 m). Good to play in, essential for life but deadly to breathe, water is important to all organisms on the planet, and the oceans form its major reservoir containing approximately 97 per cent of all freely available surface water. In spite of this obvious importance mankind has still much to learn about this ocean environment. Study of the oceans has grown enormously since the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voyages of scientific discovery, expanding greatly in the period post 1945. One of the subjects that has blossomed in this period has been the study of the ocean's surface, and in particular the study of sea­ level and related sea-surface changes. Indeed this topic may even be termed 'popular', as reflected in the growing number of general geo­ morphology, physical geology and oceanography texts which now give space to the subject.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    R. J. N. Devoy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sea Surface Studies

  • Book Subtitle: A Global View

  • Editors: R. J. N. Devoy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1146-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: R.J.N. Devoy 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-1148-3Published: 15 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-1146-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 649

  • Number of Illustrations: 219 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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