Coastal Upwelling Its Sediment Record - Part A: Responses of the Sedimentary Regime to Present Coastal Upwelling (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)

NATO Advanced Research Institutes are designed to explore unre solved problems. By focusing complementary expertise from various disciplines onto one unifying theme, they approach old problems in new ways. In line with this goal of the NATO Science Committee, and with substantial support from the u.s. Office of Naval Research and the Seabed Assessment Program of the U. S. National Science Founda tion, such a Research Institute on the theme of Coastal Upwelling and Its Sediment Record was held september 1-4, 1981, in Vilamoura, Portugal. The theme implies a modification of uniformitarian thinking in earth science. Expectations were directed not so much towards find ing the key to the past as towards exploring the limits of interpret ing the past based on present upwelling oceanography. Coastal up welling and its imprint on sediments are particularly well-suited for such a scientific inquiry. The oceanic processes and conditions characteristic of upwelling are well understood and are a well packaged representation of ocean science that are familiar to geolo gists, just as the magnitude of bioproduction and sedimentation in upwelling regimes --among other biological and geological processes- have made oceanographers realize that the bottom has a feedback role for their models.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	II Systems Science, 10B
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	1983
Authors:	Erwin Suess • Joern Thiede
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	604
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
ISBN-13:	978-1-4615-6653-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Soil science, sedimentology
LSN:	1-4615-6653-3
Barcode:	9781461566533

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