North Atlantic Palaeoceanography / Палеоокеанография Северной Атлантики

Through the activities of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) since 1969, palaeoceanography--the study of the effects of oceanic and atmospheric circulation on oceanic sedimentation-has recently become an active quasiindependent area of the earth sciences. DSDP having drawn to a close at the end of 1983 with a series of sampling cruises around the North Atlantic, we thought the time ripe for a review of North Atlantic Palaeoceanography. This review, on behalf of the Geological Society's Marine Studies Group, duly took place at a two-day meeting at the Society's premises in November 1984. Most of the significant papers presented at that meeting are contained in this book.
Organising the meeting was very satisfying, because we encountered such a strong interest in taking part. Marine geologists, biostratigraphers, sedimentologists, and geochemists all offered manuscripts, and it is their contributions that dictate the division of the volume into its three discrete sections; one on circulation, unconformities, and sedimentation; one on Neogene deep and surface water palaeoceanography; and one on Mesozoic palaeoceanography and black shales.<...>