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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 Qpw!llinq
and Its Sediment Record was held September 1-4, 1981, in Vilamoura,
Portuqal. 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 explorinq the
limits of interpret- inq the past based on present upwelling
oceanography. Coastal up- wellinq 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- packaqed representation of ocean science
that are familiar to qeolo- gists, just as the maqnitude of
bioproduction and sedimentation in upwellinq reqimes --among other
bioloqical and geoloqical processes-- have made oceanographers
realize that the bottom has a feedback role for their models.
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.
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