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The Geology of the Atlantic Ocean (Paperback, 1st ed. 1984)
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The Geology of the Atlantic Ocean (Paperback, 1st ed. 1984)
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The explosion of interest, effort, and information about the ocean
since about 1950 has produced many thousand scientific articles and
many hun dred books. In fact, the outpouring has been so large that
authors have been unable to read much of what has been published,
so they have tended to concentrate their own work within smaller
and smaller subfields of oceanog raphy. Summaries of information
published in books have taken two main paths. One is the grouping
of separately authored chapters into symposia type books, with
their inevitable overlaps and gaps between chapters. The other is
production of lightly researched books containing drawings and
tables from previous pUblications, with due credit given but
showing assem bly-line writing with little penetration of the
unknown. Only a few books have combined new and previous data and
thoughts into new maps and syntheses that relate the contributions
of observed biological, chemical, geological, and physical
processes to solve broad problems associated with the shape,
composition, and history of the oceans. Such a broad synthesis is
the objective of this book, in which we tried to bring together
many of the pieces of research that were deemed to be of manageable
size by their originators. The composite may form a sort of plateau
above which later studies can rise, possibly benefited by our assem
bly of data in the form of new maps and figures.
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