Gulf of Mexico. Origin, waters and biota. Volume 3. Geology / Мексиканский залив. Происхождение, воды и биота. Том 3. Геология

Just over 50 years ago, a group of prominent marine scientists of their day agreed to begin work on a digest of existing knowledge on the Gulf of Mexico. The eff ort was proposed by Lionel A. Walford of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Waldo L. Schmitt of the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, during a meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute in Miami. Paul S. Galtsoff of the Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to coordinate the project, the magnitude of which he subsequently found far exceeded his expectations. However, 3 years of eff ort by 55 contributors and additional months of editing resulted in the 1954 publication of a classic reference work entitled Gulf of Mexico—Its Origin, Waters, and Marine Life as Fishery Bulletin 89, Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, volume 55 (Galtsoff 1954). The table of contents for the volume appears at the end of this foreword. On the title page of the work is an explanatory note that it was “Prepared by American scientists under the sponsorship of the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior” and that the eff ort was “Coordinated by Paul S. Galtsoff ,” who is generally indicated as the editor in bibliographic references to it. <...>