The Ocean Basins. Their Structure and Evolution

✍ Scribed by Joan Brown and Gerry Bearman (Auth.)

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Volume describes the processes that shape ocean basins, determine the structure and composition of the ocean crust, and control the major features of the continental margins. Further subjects examined are the 'hot springs' of the deep oceans, the main pattern of sediment distribution in ocean basins including the recording of past climatic and sea-level changes, and the role of oceans as an integral part of global chemical cycles. Each Volume in this set is well laid out and copiously illustrated with full colour photographs, graphs and graphics. Questions to help develop arguments and/or understanding can be found in the text and at the end of each chapter, with worked answers provided at the back of each Volume. Each chapter also concludes with a sum mary to help consolidate understanding before the next chapter is begun

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
THE OCEANOGRAPHY COURSE TEAM, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
ABOUT THIS VOLUME, Page 4
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION, Pages 5-24
CHAPTER 2 - THE SHAPE OF OCEAN BASINS, Pages 25-51
CHAPTER 3 - THE EVOLUTION OF OCEAN BASINS, Pages 52-66
CHAPTER 4 - THE STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE, Pages 67-91
CHAPTER 5 - HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION IN OCEANIC CRUST, Pages 92-113
CHAPTER 6 - PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY AND SEA-LEVEL CHANGES, Pages 114-138
CHAPTER 7 - THE BROADER PICTURE, Pages 139-147
APPENDIX - THE STRATIGRAPHIC COLUMN, Page 148
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING, Page 149
ANSWERS AND COMMENTS TO QUESTIONS, Pages 150-165
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Pages 166-167
INDEX, Pages 168-171