Paleoceanography

By Thomas J.M. Schopf

Whether in the context of off-shore oil exploration or pure research, the oceans of the geological past have never been of more compelling interest. The recent expansion in oceanographic studies has produced a burgeoning of data on ancient ocean circulation, climate bathymetry, chemistry, biology, and temperature--date that now should be considered in a more general geological and paleontological framework.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674652150
• ISBN13: 9780674652156
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"