Martin Meschede

Jörn Thiede

Sven Petersen

Jan Harff

Globally growing demand of energy and mineral resources, reliable future projection of climate processes and the protection of coasts to mitigate the threats of disasters and hazards require a comprehensive understanding of the structure, ongoing processes and genesis of the marine geosphere. Beyond the “classical” research fields in marine geology in current time more general concepts have been evolved integrating marine geophysics, hydrography, marine biology, climatology and ecology. As an umbrella the term “marine geosciences” has been broadly accepted for this new complex field of research and the solutions of practical tasks in the marine realm. The “Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences” comprises the current knowledge in marine geosciences whereby not only basic but also applied and technical sciences are covered. Through this concept a broad scale of users in the field of marine sciences and techniques is addressed from students and scholars in academia to engineers and decision makers in industry and politics.

Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences

Werner U. Ehrmann

History of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sediment Fluxes to the North Atlantic Ocean

S. L. Pfirman

The Nansen Basin Section

Arctic Deep-sea Research

Michael Schlüter

Priska Schäfer

Will Ritzrau

The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes. This book integrates the results of an interdisciplinary project studying the properties of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas and the processes of pelagic and benthic particle formation, particle transport, and deposition in the deep-sea sediments. Ice-related and biogeochemical processes have been investigated to decipher the spatial and temporal variability of the production and fate of organic carbon in this region. Isotopic stratigraphy, microfossil assemblages and paleotemperatures are combined to reconstruct paleoceanographic conditions and to model past climatic changes in the Late Quaternary. The Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas can now be considered one of the best studied subbasins of the world`s oceans.

A Changing Environment

The Northern North Atlantic

U. Bleil

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Bremen, Germany, October 10-14, 1988

Geological History of the Polar Oceans: Arctic versus Antarctic

Heidemarie Kassens

Henning A. Bauch

Igor A. Dmitrenko

Hajo Eicken

Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten

Martin Melles

Leonid A. Timokhov

The Arctic and its surrounding marginal seas are considered some of the most sensitive elements of the global environment, which may respond rapidly to climate change. However, due to various reasons, our knowledge of the processes which drive the Arctic system today and in the past is still relatively sparse. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, German and Russian scientists describe in this book the natural paleorecords and modern data which were collected over the past 6 years. These marine and terrestrial datasets provide important new insights into the causes, impacts, and feedback mechanisms of this extreme Arctic environment.

Dynamics and History

Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic

Jörn Thiede

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