Ocean Geology: Exploring New Frontiers in the Ocean

Author: (USA) Jon Erikson
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book is a translation of the American textbook MARINGGEOLOGY by the author. It begins with basic marine geology knowledge and introduces closely related fields, disciplines, and various types of knowledge such as marine environments and marine chemistry. In this Marine Geology, Jon Erikson explores several hypotheses, such as the origin of the Earth, the formation of land and the oceans, and how these processes adapt to cosmic environments. It provides a detailed discussion of the role of seawater in the formation of plate tectonics and presents the necessary evidence for the functioning of plate tectonics. The ocean basins on Earth continuously expand and contract, while landmasses continuously converge to form supercontinents, which are then separated through the formation of new ocean basins. The emergence, evolution, and extinction of different organisms are inevitably linked to the expansion and contraction of marine basins, partly achieved by altering environmental conditions related to tectonic processes. The book also discusses the history of several different ocean basins over the past billions of years and the continuous changes in organisms within each basin.