Books in the Developments in Marine Geology series

Offers information in marine sedimentology, associating generalities to case studies. This book provides an association of information on the origin and transport of sediment particles, the evolution of sediment series and their role as archives of past environments.

Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. This title presents knowledge from coral reefs gained since the eighties. It introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity.

Deals with the paleoceanography of the Late Cenozoic ocean. This title addresses quantitative methodologies to reconstruct the dynamics of the ocean. It gathers methodologies for the measurement and quantitative interpretation of tracers and proxies in deep sea sediments that allow reconstruction of a few key past-properties of the ocean.

Among the marginal basins worldwide, the South and East China Seas have been the focus of extensive research activities in the last three decades. It is now one the global hot spots in hydrocarbon explorations and scientific investigations. The region is experiencing rapid economic development with the offshore petroleum industry providing approximately one third of the domestic hydrocarbon production for Mainland China. Gas hydrates have been successfully recovered from the China Seas for the first time. Over the years, many volumes on the petroleum geology of the China Seas have been published in Chinese. Although an increasing number of papers in English have appeared recently, the majority deal with local or regional paleo-environment and sedimentology and they are scattered in different journals. This book provides a synthesis of the rich data available, particularly those generated by Chinese marine geologists and petroleum geologists and provides the very first synthesis of the geology off China.

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP: 2000-2013) has provided crucial records of past and present processes and interactions within and between the biosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. Research in IODP encompasses a wide range of fundamental and applied issues that affect society, such as global climate change, biodiversity, the origin of life, natural hazards involving the study of earthquakes processes, and the internal structure and dynamics of our planet.This compilation of major findings from the 2003-2013/14 phase of IODP, focusing on scientific results rather than description of data acquisition and early inferences, provides invaluable information. Anyone wondering what scientific drilling can achieve will gain quick understanding of the range of questions that are uniquely addressed with this methodology and the ways these data dovetail with other regional information. The excitement of breakthrough findings that occasionally accompanies a drilling project will be evident. IODP obtained unique records from the global ocean basins during the 2003-2013 program phase. This book highlights findings inthree theme areas: Subseafloor life and the marine biosphere; Earth's changing environments; and Dynamics of the solid Earth. Each core or borehole log provides a window revealing insights that no other data achieve.