Published through the yankee Geophysical Union as a part of the Special courses Series.
We are happy to provide this edited translation of Oceanic Sedimentation, from the unique Russian variation of Alexander Lisitzin's Processes in Oceanic Sedimentation: Lithology and Geochemistry (Nauka). released initially in 1978, this quantity represents an enormous, significant synthesis on oceanic sediments and significant strategies governing their formation and distribution in area and time. the first concentration of this quantity is the impression of our surroundings, particularly weather, at the mineral, chemical, and isotopic composition of sediments and their actual features. This worldwide viewpoint is wealthy in info approximately sediment resources, composition, transportation, volumes, fluxes, and budgets. We contemplate that this edited translation is of specific significance simply because Lisitzin's compilation is likely one of the broadest and such a lot entire on hand in any language.
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