Mysteries of the deep : how seafloor drilling expeditions revolutionized our understanding of Earth history / James Lawrence Powell

English

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

1 Online-Ressource (286 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Powell, James Lawrence, 1936-: Mysteries of the deep. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024

978-0-262-37820-8

978-0-262-37821-5

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-262-04892-7 (Druckausgabe) hardcover

Introduction -- The voyage of HMS Challenger -- Coral reefs : rainforests of the sea -- Probing the seafloor -- Nothing beats a map -- Do seafloors spread and continents drift? -- Continental drift to plate tectonics -- Hotspots in the mantle -- When the Mediterranean dried up -- The glacial theory -- The astronomical pacemaker -- Astrochronology -- Crater of doom -- The hot, deep biosphere -- The seventh continent -- Eocene doomsday -- Human evolution -- Looking back and ahead.

*Submarine geology ; Oceanography ; Ocean bottom ; Geology -- Research

*Océanographie ; Fonds marins ; Géologie - Recherche ; oceanography ; Geology - Research ; Ocean bottom ; Oceanography ; Submarine geology

Library of Congress Classification: QE39

Dewey Decimal Classification: 551.46/8

"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"--

 

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