Marine Geosciences: A Short, Eclectic, and Weighted Historic Account

Marine geosciences are covering all phenomena and processes related to the formations of shallow shelf seas and of the deep ocean. They draw on modern dynamics of seafloor and sediment formation, marine geophysics and tectonics, volcanology, geochemistry, microbiology, biology, and paleontology of marine organisms. They are of great economic importance because of the wealth of nonliving marine resources