South Atlantic paleoceanography /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Abstract: | Paleoceanography is the science dealing with the history of the oceans. Originally published in 1985, this book describes what had been found out during the previous decade about the past 100 million years of the history of the South Atlantic Ocean, thanks largely to drilling by Glomar Challenger during five expeditions in 1980. Palaeotemperature studies provided a history of climatic variations, geochemistry of carbon isotopes provided information on fertility of planktonic organisms and the intensity of oceanic overturns, while correlation of sediment character to changes in oceanic chemistry and fertility permitted interpretations of the variation of the level at which fossil skeletons became dissolved. All the authors were experts and most took part in the 1980 expeditions to the South Atlantic. The book brought together the results of the major discoveries into one volume. This volume was the first modern regional synthesis of ocean history, and it served as methodological model for studies of the world's other oceans. |
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| Item Description: | Papers from a symposium held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Paleoceanography, 1983, Zürich, Switzerland. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780521129732 0521129737 9780521266093 0521266092 |