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The Sea Floor : An Introduction to Marine Geology by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Eugen Seibold, Prof. Wolfgang H. Berger Ph.D. (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Man's understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years. This great revolution in geology - now usually subsumed under the concept of Plate Tectonics - brought the realization that convection within the Earth is responsible for the origin of today's ocean basins and conti­ nents, and that the grand features of the Earth's surface are the product of ongoing large-scale horizontal motions. Some of these notions were put forward earlier in this century (by A. Wegener, in 1912, and by A. Holmes, in 1929), but most of the new ideas were an outgrowth of the study of the ocean floor after World War II. In its impact on the earth sciences, the plate tectonics revolution is comparable to the upheaval wrought by the ideas of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), which started the intense discussion on the evolution of the biospere that has recently heated up again. Darwin drew his inspiration from observations on island life made during the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), and his work gave strong impetus to the first global oceanographic expedition, the voyage of HMS Challenger (1872- 1876). Ever since, oceanographic research has been

Who reads The Sea Floor : An Introduction to Marine Geology?

Author

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Eugen Seibold, Prof. Wolfgang H. Berger Ph.D. (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9783662225196

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Management

Updated

2026-03-24