The Red Sea. The formation, morphology, oceanography and environment of a young ocean basin / Красное море. Формация, морфология, океанография и окружающая среда молодого океанического бассейна

Introduction to the Red Sea: Its Origin, Structure, and Environment    
Najeeb M.A. Rasul, Ian C.F. Stewart, and Zohair A. Nawab
The Red Sea: Birth of an Ocean    
Enrico Bonatti, Anna Cipriani, and Luca Lupi
Geological Evolution of the Red Sea: Historical Background,
Review, and Synthesis    
William Bosworth
Seafloor Spreading Initiation: Geophysical and Geochemical Constraints from the Thetis and Nereus Deeps, Central Red Sea    
Marco Ligi, Enrico Bonatti, and Najeeb M.A. Rasul
The Northern Red Sea in Transition from Rifting to Drifting-Lessons Learned from Ocean Deeps    
Axel Ehrhardt and Christian Htibscher
Lineaments in Gravity Data of the Red Sea    
Neil C. Mitchell
Geodetic Constraints on the Geodynamic Evolution of the Red Sea    
Robert Reilinger, Simon McClusky, and Abdullah ArRajehi
Seismicity and Seismotectonic Setting of the Red Sea and Adjacent Areas    
Salah El-Hadidy Youssef
Seismicity of the Western Side of the Southern Red Sea    
Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi and Berhe Goitom
Volcanic Eruptions in the Southern Red Sea During 2007-2013    
Sigurjon Jonsson and Wenbin Xu
Red Sea Salt Formations—A Result of Hydrothermal Processes    
Martin Hovland, Hakon Rueslatten, and Hans Konrad Johnsen
Salt Flows in the Central Red Sea    
Peter Feldens and Neil C. Mitchell
Geochemical Classification of Brine-Filled Red Sea Deeps    
Mark Schmidt, Radwan Al-Farawati, and Reiner Botz
Hydrothermal Activity and Paleoenvironments of the Atlantis II Deep    
Pierre Anschutz
Environmental Risks of Mining Metalliferous Muds in the Atlantis II Deep,
Red Sea    
Hjalmar Thiel, Ludwig Karbe, and Horst Weikert
Calcite and Aragonite Saturation States of the Red Sea and Biogeochemical Impacts of Excess Carbon Dioxide    
Ahmed I. Rushdi
Lagoon Sediments of the Eastern Red Sea: Distribution Processes,
Pathways and Patterns    
Najeeb M.A. Rasul
Sea-Level Changes    
David T. Pugh and Yasser Abualnaja
Air-Sea Interaction and Horizontal Circulation in the Red Sea    
Amy S. Bower and J. Thomas Farrar
Water Mass Formation, Overturning Circulation, and the Exchange of the Red Sea with the Adjacent Basins    
Sarantis Sofianos and William E. Johns
Heat Balance of the Red Sea    
Fazal Ahmad and Alaa M.A. Albarakati
Impacts of Climate Change on the Red Sea Region and its Watersheds,
Saudi Arabia    
Mohamed Sultan, Saleh Sefry, and Mazen AbuAbdallah
Raised Coral Reefs and Sediments in the Coastal Area of the Red Sea    
Abbas M. Mansour and Hashem A. Madkour
Geomorphology of Shallow Water Coral Reef Environments in the Red Sea . . .
Gwilym Rowlands and Sam Purkis
Coral Reefs and Communities of the Central and Southern Red Sea (Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Yemen)    Rebecca Klaus
Coral Reefs of the Red Sea with Special Reference to the Sudanese
Coastal Area    
Dirar Nasr
The Status, Threats, and Resilience of Reef-Building Corals
of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea    
Andrew W. Bruckner and Alexandra C. Dempsey
Biology of Red Sea Corals: Metabolism, Reproduction, Acclimatization, and Adaptation    
Yvonne Sawall and Abdulmohsin Al-Sofyani
Taxonomic, Ecological and Historical Considerations on the Deep-Water Benthic Mollusc Fauna of the Red Sea    
Ronald Janssen and Marco Taviani
Sea Slugs: Unexpected Biodiversity and Distribution    
Nathalie Yonow
Marine Turtles of the Red Sea    
Agnese Mancini, Islam Elsadek, and Magdy A.N. El-Alwany
Phytoplankton of the Red Sea    
Amany A. Ismael
Mangroves of the Red Sea    
Ahmed S.M. Khalil
The Evolution of the Red Sea as a Human Habitat During the Quaternary Period    
Geoff Bailey
Authors’ Biographies