Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time
Author: Jeffrey Stilwell
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-10-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0643096353

Presents a comprehensive overview of the fossil record of Antarctica framed within its changing environmental settings. Jeffrey Stilwell, Monash University; John Long, Australian palaentologist, currently at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, USA.

Ocean Margin Systems

Ocean Margin Systems
Author: Gerold Wefer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662051273

Ocean margins are the transitional zones between the oceans and continents. They represent dynamic systems in which numerous processes shape the environment and result in impacting the utilization and hazard potentials for humans. These processes are influenced by a variety of steering mechanisms, from mountain building and climate on the land to tectonics and sea-level fluctuations in ocean margins. This book examines various aspects of regulation for the long-term development of ocean margins, of the impact of fluids and of the dynamics of benthic life at and below the seafloor in ocean margin systems.

Cold-water Corals

Cold-water Corals
Author: J. Murray Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2009
Genre: Coral reefs and islands
ISBN: 0521884853

"This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water coral, covering their ecology, biology, paleontology and geology."--Back cover.

Paleogene Shallow Benthos of the Tethys, 2

Paleogene Shallow Benthos of the Tethys, 2
Author: Katica Drobne
Publisher: Založba ZRC
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 961624213X

Obdobje 20 milijonov let, ki je sledilo opustošenju po kredno-terciarni meji in izumrtju dinozavrov, ima posebno mesto v zgodovini Zemlje. V tem času se je postopoma obnavljalo življenje z vso pestrostjo svojih oblik. Podrobno proučevanje tega obnavljanja nam daje ključ za razumevanje vzrokov, zakaj in kako je vzniknila in napredovala raznovrstnost življenja. Pričujoči zvezek je zbir zgodovinskih dokumentov, ki ilustrirajo nekatere od mnogih podob obnove.

Biogeochemistry of the Ross Sea

Biogeochemistry of the Ross Sea
Author: Giacomo R. DiTullio
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2003-01-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Antarctic Research Series, Volume 78. The seas surrounding Antarctica are the least-studied on Earth, yet they figure prominently in both the global climate system and the biogeochemical cycling of such key elements as C, N, Si, and P. The Southern Ocean affects climate directly through the sinking of surface waters via cooling and changes in salt content. Such water near Antarctica moves slowly northward through all major ocean basins. In doing so, it retains a long-lived signature of the physical and biological processes that occurred in Antarctic surface waters lasting many hundreds of years through all phases: sinking, northward flow, and mixing or upwelling into the sunlit ocean thousands of kilometers away. By this process, CO2 that dissolves into the Antarctic seas may be stored in the deep ocean for centuries. In fact, the Southern Ocean is one of the most important regions on Earth for the uptake and subsurface transport of fossil fuel CO2.