Encyclopedia of marine geosciences

Abyssal plain -- Accretionary wedge -- Acidification -- Active continental margin -- Anoxic oceans -- Asphalt volcanism -- Axial magma chamber -- Axial summit graben, axial summit trough -- Backarc basins and backarc spreading center -- Beach -- Beach nourishment -- Beach processes -- Biochronology...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

Abyssal plain -- Accretionary wedge -- Acidification -- Active continental margin -- Anoxic oceans -- Asphalt volcanism -- Axial magma chamber -- Axial summit graben, axial summit trough -- Backarc basins and backarc spreading center -- Beach -- Beach nourishment -- Beach processes -- Biochronology -- Biogenic barium -- Biostratigraphy -- Bioturbation -- Black and white smoker -- Boninites -- Bottom simulating seismic reflector (BSR) -- Bottom-boundary layer -- Bouma sequence -- Break waters -- Carbon dioxide and climate (carbon cycle) -- Carbon isotopes/-stratigraphy -- Carbon pump -- Carbonate dissolution -- Carbonate factory -- CCD -- Chemosynthetic life -- Clay minerals -- Coastal bio-geochemical cycles -- Coastal engineering -- Coasts -- Cold seeps -- Continental margin sediments -- Continental rift system, graben -- Continental rise -- Continental slope -- Contour currents -- Convergence texture of seismic reflectors -- Core-complex formation -- Crustal accretion (incl. gabbro glacier model) -- Cumulate -- Curie temperature -- Currents -- Data banks (Pangaea) -- Decollement -- Deep biosphere -- Deep Sea Fans -- Deep sea sediments -- Delta -- Depleted mantle -- Detachment fault -- Diatoms -- Dinoflagellates -- Driving forces (slab pull, ridge push) -- Dunes -- Dust in the ocean -- Dykes -- Earthquake -- El Nino -- Energy resources -- Epicenter, hypocenter -- Erosion and hiatusses -- Estuary, estuarine/anti-estuarine current system -- Eustasy -- Events in ocean history -- Explosive volcanism in the deep sea -- Export production -- Fault-plane solution -- Fjord -- Foraminifers (benthic) -- Foraminifers (planktonic) -- Forebulge (lithospheric) -- Fracture zone -- Fresh water in the oceans -- Gabbro -- Gas hydrates -- GEBCO -- Geochronology -- Geohazards (coastal disasters) -- Geological effects of ocean circulation -- Geomagnetic field -- Glacial marine sedimentation -- Glacio-isostatic adjustment -- Gravity field -- Grounding line -- Groynes -- Guyot, atoll -- Heat flow -- High-pressure/low temperature metamorphism -- History of Marine Geology -- Hot spots and mantle plumes -- Hurricanes/ Typhoons -- Hydrocarbons (natural oil and gas) -- Hydrothermalism -- Hydrothermal plumes -- Hydrothermal vent fluids -- IBCAO -- Ice rafted debris (IRD) -- Impacts and their products -- Integrated Coastal Zone Management -- Intracontinental rifting -- Intraoceanic subduction zone -- Intraplate volcanism -- Island arc volcanism, volcanic arcs -- Lagoon -- Laminated sediments -- Large igneous provinces (LIP) -- Lava types (pillow lava, sheet flows, lobate, etc) -- Layering of oceanic crust -- Lithosphere -- Lithospheric mantle -- Lithostratigraphy -- Magmatism at convergent plate boundaries -- Magnetostratigraphy -- Magnetism and paleomagnetism -- Manganese crusts, Co-rich manganese crusts -- Manganese nodules -- Mangrove coast -- Mantle plume -- Marginal seas -- Marine evaporites -- Marine microfossils -- Marine mineral resources -- Marine sedimentary basins -- Mass wasting (slides) -- Methane in sediments -- Mid-ocean ridges -- Mid-ocean ridge magmatism -- Milankovitch frequencies/-cyclicities -- Modelling past oceans -- Modern analog technique -- Mohorovicic-discontinuity (Moho) -- Morain -- Morphology of a subuction zone (forearc, backarc, deep sea trench) -- Mud volcano -- Nannoplankton/ coccolithophorids -- Nitrogene (stable) isotopes -- North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) -- Oceanic crust -- Ocean drilling -- Ocean margin systems -- Oceanic rift system, Mid-Oceanic Ridge -- Oil spill -- Ophiolite -- Organic matter -- Orogeny -- Overlapping spreading center -- Oxygen isotopes and –stratigraphy -- Paired metamorphic belt -- Paleoceanographic proxies -- Paleoceanography -- Paleophysiography of ocean basins -- Paleoproductivity -- Passive plate margin -- Peridotite -- Petroleum, natural gas -- phosphorites -- Placer deposits -- Plate motion -- Plate stratigraphy -- Pollen/spores -- Precambrian ocean basins -- Propagating rift -- Pteropods -- Pull-apart basin -- Push-up block -- Radiocarbon dating -- Radiogenic tracers -- Radiolarians -- Reef coast -- Reefs -- Regional marine geology -- Regional oceanography and sediments -- Reflection/refraction seismology -- Regression -- Relative sea level (RSL) cycle -- Ridge-plume interaction -- Salt domes in the ocean -- Sapropel -- Sclerochronology -- Sea floor spreading -- Sea level dynamics -- Sea walls / revetments -- Seamounts -- Sediment dynamic -- Sediment transport models -- Sedimentary Sequence / parasequence -- Seismic layers -- Seismogenic zone -- Sequence stratigraphy -- Serpentinization -- Shelf -- Silica -- Source rocks, reservoirs -- Spreading axis -- Spreading rates and ridge morphology -- Stratigraphy (table) -- Subduction -- Subduction erosion -- Submarine canyon -- Subsidence -- Systems tracts (highstand, lowstand, transgressive, shelf margin) -- Technology in marine geosciences -- Terrane -- Tidal coast -- Transform fault -- Transgression -- Triple junction -- Tsunamis -- Turbidite / contourite -- Underwater archaeology -- Upwelling in the ocean and its geological effects -- Volcanic eruptions as hazards -- Volcanism and climate -- Volcanogenic massive sulfides -- Wadati- Benioff-zone -- Wadden Sea -- Waves -- Wilson cycle Ausführliche Beschreibung