Keywords:
Submarine geology.
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Submarine topography.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
An account of some aspects of marine geology and marine geophysics, comprehensible to those at an early stage in their study of geology and to scientists who are not specialists in these fields. There are many biologists, chemists, mathematicians or physicists who work in the laboratory or on board ship with geologists and geophysicists and this book will help them to understand the aims of their colleages' experiments. Wherever possible, without a loss of necessary precision, terminology is deliberately simplified.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483293493
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1838278
DDC:
551.4608
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- An Introduction to Marine Geology -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- THE GROSS STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH -- THE ROCKS WHICH FORM THE OUTER PART OF THE EARTH -- ROCK-FORMING MINERALS -- IGNEOUS ROCKS -- A CLASSIFICATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS -- CHAPTER 2. Geophysical Techniques for Exploration of the Sea Floor -- INTRODUCTION -- EXPLOSION SEISMOLOGY -- REFLECTIONS: ECHO-SOUNDING AND SEISMIC-PROFILING -- SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS: EARTHQUAKES -- GRAVITY AT SEA -- THE TOTAL INTENSITY OF THE MAGNETIC FIELDOF THE EARTH -- MEASUREMENT OF HEAT-FLOW -- OTHER METHODS AND DEVELOPMENTS -- CHAPTER 3. The Topography of the Ocean Floor -- THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN -- THE OCEAN BASIN FLOOR -- MID-OCEAN RIDGE SYSTEM -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TOPOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 4. Pelagic Sediments -- INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITIONS -- FAUNA AND FLORA -- DETERMINATION OF THE ABSOLUTE AGE -- MAGNETIZATION OF SEDIMENTS: MAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY -- MINERALOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF PELAGIC SEDIMENTS -- APPLICATIONS OF STUDIES OF PELAGIC SEDIMENTS -- CHAPTER 5. Abyssal Plain Sediments -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SEDIMENTS OF THE IBERIA ABYSSAL PLAIN -- THE JUNCTION OF THE BISCAY AND IBERIA PLAINS -- TURBIDITES OF FORMER TIMES -- CHAPTER 6. Movements of the Sea Floor -- THE INTEREST -- CORAL REEFS AND GUYOTS -- SUBSIDENCE AND ELEVATION -- LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS: MAGNETIC ANOMALIES IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN -- CHAPTER 7. Igneous Rochof the Ocean Basins -- BASIC AND ULTRABASIC IGNEOUS ROCKS -- IGNEOUS ROCKS OF THE OCEAN BASINS -- OCEANIC ISLANDS -- IGNEOUS ROCKS FROM THE MID-OCEAN RIDGES -- BASALTS FROM THE IBERIA ABYSSAL PLAIN -- MANGANESE IN THE OCEAN BASINS -- INHOMOGENEITIES WITHIN THE UPPER MANTLE -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 8. The Structure of the Ocean Basins -- THE MID-OCEAN RIDGE SYSTEM -- THE CONTINENTAL MARGINS.
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CHAPTER 9. Polar Wandering and Continental Drift -- CONTINENTAL DRIFT: OCEAN-FLOOR SPREADING -- APPENDIX 1: Geological Society ofLondon PhanerozoicTime-scale 1964 -- APPENDIX 2: Rock-forming Silicates -- References -- Index.
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