The Sea Floor: An Introduction to Marine Geology

By Wolfgang H. Berger, Eugen Seibold, Wolfgang Berger

Book Overview

The "Sea Floor" is designed to acquaint students with the most important results achieved in marine geology over the last three decades and the scientists who brought them about. Written by two of marine geology's leading exponents, it lays the groundwork for studies in geology, oceanography and environmental sciences by summarizing modern 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540601910
• ISBN13: 9783540601913
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive book on marine geology

This book comprehends the main aspects relating to the "ocean world". Its pages contain from basic information on the oceans' origin and history to the major advanced investigations on variations of the mean sea-level using microfossils (foraminifera). This book contains basic information for geology and oceanography ungraduate and master students.