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Product Description: This authoritative volume includes contributions from a wide range of researchers of intertidal sediments. Individual chapters explore the underlying biogeochemical processes controlling the behavior of carbon, the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus, and contaminants such as toxic organics, trace metals and artificial radionuclides in intertidal environments...read more

Product Description: This two-volume handbook presents advanced research and operational information about hard minerals and hydrocarbons. It provides information in an integrated, interdisciplinary manner, stressing case histories. It includes review chapters, illustrations, graphs, tables, and color satellite images that present the results of gravity, geodetic, and seismic surveys and of 3-D sea floor sub-bottom visualizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A marine scientist and first female pilot of the submersible Alvin delves into the dark and mysterious ocean depths, revealing the wonders of the vast and silent wilderness that thrives on the ocean floor. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Since the 1990s, when the European Commission ner similar to aerial photography. It should be kept started under the Marine Science and Technology in mind, that each of the continental margin sur- (MAST) programme funding for multinational veys between Svalbard in the north and the Ca- continental margin research, increased investiga- naries in the south, called for the team work of sci- tions of the seabed provided new insights into entists and seamen on numerous research vessels large-scale sedimentary processes shaping the Eu- under weather conditions ranging from severe ropean continental margin...read more

Product Description: Since the 1990s, when the European Commission ner similar to aerial photography. It should be kept started under the Marine Science and Technology in mind, that each of the continental margin sur- (MAST) programme funding for multinational veys between Svalbard in the north and the Ca- continental margin research, increased investiga- naries in the south, called for the team work of sci- tions of the seabed provided new insights into entists and seamen on numerous research vessels large-scale sedimentary processes shaping the Eu- under weather conditions ranging from severe ropean continental margin...read more

Product Description: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 57.This volume is an outgrowth of IUGG Union Symposium 9 held during the 1987 IUGG General Assembly at Vancouver, Canada. This symposium, jointly sponsored by IAVCEI, IASPEI, ICL and IAGA, consisted of 31 presentations ranging in subject matter from melt segregation and melt focusing processes beneath mid-ocean ridges, to the structures of oceanic crust and ophiolite analogues, morphological variations in the accretion process, the structural evolution of specific spreading ridge systems, the interplay between magmatism and rifting, and the chemical and thermal balances involved in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems...read more

Examines the implications for science of the discovery of seafloor hot springs, and discusses new theories about the origins of life on Earth, the changing world climate, and the formation of gold

Product Description: For eight centuries the presence and the influence of Francis’s life and deeds have made themselves felt in the history of Christianity and in that of the rest of humanity, too. Published for the 2014 exhibition Friar Francis: Traces, Words, Images, held at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, a place that hosts a variety of cultural events every day and is itself a symbol of peace, the volume is a tribute to the figure of Francis, extraordinary man and saint, and it is a rare occasion of great scientific and cultural value to approach and get to know Francis through ancient and unique manuscripts from the Library of the Sacro Convento di San Francesco in Assisi...read more

Filled with powerful illustrations from Titanic director James Cameron's historic 2001 journey inside the infamous wreck, this fascinating tour of the ship takes readers deep inside the hull for an unprecidented look around. 100,000 first printing.

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Product Description: During the past ten years, evidence has developed to indicate that seawater convects through oceanic crust driven by heat derived from creation of lithosphere at the Earth-encircling oceanic ridge-rift system of seafloor spreading centers...read more

Product Description: This volume follows a Specialized Symposium on "Mantle denudation in slow spreading ridges and in ophiolites", held at the XII EUG Meeting in Strasbourg, spring 1993. During the meeting it was felt that the contribu­ tions to the Symposium justified a volume presenting its main scientific achievements...read more

Product Description: Svend Saxov* and J.K. Nieuwenhuis** *Laboratory of Geophysics, Aarhus University Finlandsgade 6, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark **Ministry of Transport and Public Works Rijkswaterstaat, Deltadienst Van Alkemadelaan 400, 2597 AT the Hague The Netherlands The NATO Science Committee Special Programme Panel on Marine Sciences decided in September 1979 that a work ing group should prepare a document dealing with the prob lems of marine slides...read more

Product Description: The study of the topography and structure of the ocean floor is one of the most important stages in ascertaining the geological structure and history of development of the Earth's oceanic crust. This, in its turn, provides a means for purposeful, scientifically-substantiated prospecting, exploration and development of the mineral resources of the ocean...read more

An exploration and study of oceans discusses their origins, current issues surrounding the harvesting of energy and food from depleted ocean sources, and the technological advances being made in the study of the ocean floor. (view table of contents)