Not long ago, scientists viewed the ocean floor as a vast, featureless plain, an ancient repository of detritus eroded from the surface of an unchanging Earth. This all changed with the Herculean quest to discover what lay on the world's ocean floor--a quest that inspired the continental drift-...

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1. Verfasser:	Lawrence, David M (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] Rutgers Univ. Press 2002
Schlagworte:	Abysses Cartographie géologique Fonds marins Oceanografia Oceanografie Geological mapping Ocean bottom Kartierung Meeresboden Geschichte
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Zusammenfassung:	Not long ago, scientists viewed the ocean floor as a vast, featureless plain, an ancient repository of detritus eroded from the surface of an unchanging Earth. This all changed with the Herculean quest to discover what lay on the world's ocean floor--a quest that inspired the continental drift-plate tectonics revolution and overturned prevailing scientific notions of how the Earth's surface was created, rearranged, and destroyed. Upheaval from the abyss spans a 130-year period, beginning with the early efforts to map the depths during the age of sail; continuing with improvements in research methods spurred by maritime disaster and war; and culminating in the publication of the first map of the world's ocean floor in 1977. David M. Lawrence brings this tale to life by weaving through it the personalities of the scientists-explorers who struggled to see the face of the deep, and reveals not only the facts of how the ocean floor was mapped, but also the human dimensions of what the scientists experienced and felt while in the process.
Beschreibung:	XVII, 284 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0813530288