Basic data on the opening of backarc basin, South China Sea (abbreviated as SCS hereafter) basin, were obtained through a two-year Japan and China cooperative joint marine geophysical survey in 1993 and 1994. Some new gravity, magnetic and seismic structural data by reflection as well as refraction study of SCS were obtained and added to existing data. A systematic three component magnetic measurement was made for the first time in this basin. These data in addition to those of earlier studies are constraints for depicting a thinning of a continental crust and later followed by a backarc basin opening by ocean floor spreading. Gravimetric and magnetic anomalies, heat flow, and ages of drilled rocks from this area are referred to speculating on the opening scheme of SCS. Origin of disoriented and scattered magnetic anomaly lineations is suggested to be due to intermittent activities along opening ridge systems of SCS. <...>

Geologists have always known the importance of investigating the world's vast submerged territory, but until the 1940s it remained virtually a terra incognito. Finally, the world's worst war, along with all its horror, had among a few redeeming features the persuasion of naval scientists and their civilian advisors that naval operations needed a background knowledge of the ocean and its floor.

Пятикилометровая толща верхнемеловых-датских отложений Северо-Западного Кавкава предотаглена двумя флишевыми и одной карбонатной формацией: сеноманским мергельным тонким инфрафлишем, нижнетуронской алеврито-карбонатной субформацией, верхне-туронско-коньякским биогенным тонким инфрафлишем, сантонской мергельно-известняковой формацией, кампанско-маастрихтским мергельным биогенным ортофлишем, датским аргиллитовым тонким пара-флишем. Эти отложения обнажены в прекрасных разрезах: Грокуловском, Андреевском, Тхабском, Восточно-Дивноморском, Шесхариксоком, Мельничном, Убыгском, Куниковском, Мысхакском, Анапском, Западно-Озерейкинском, Джанхотском.

El concepto de espacios marítimos, su extensión y límites, así como las actividades de los Estados, las personas y las comunidades costeras, entre otros temas, son hechos tan antiguos como la humanidad misma. Durante el siglo pasado el derecho del mar experimentó un cambio notable en cuanto a la expansión del Estado hacia la alta mar, el establecimiento de un régimen para los fondos marinos y el cambio cualitativo de los derechos y regímenes aplicables en los océanos.

В сентябре 2012 г. в г. Петрозаводске на базе Института водных проблем Севера Карельского научного центра РАН проводится V Всероссийский симпозиум с международным участием по органическому веществу (ОВ) и биогенным элементам (БЭ) во внутренних водоемах и морских водах.

The Holocene is the most recent period of the earth’s history, comprising the last 10,000 years. It is characterized by a climate much milder than in the preceding glacial period, during which huge ice caps covered not only Antarctica and Greenland (as today), but also part of North America and of North Europe, as well as several other high latitude and high altitude areas <...>

Интересы экономики все больше требуют от человечества овладения* богатствами морей и океанов. Автор член-корреспондент АН Латв. ССР рассказывает о том, как планируется изучение и освоение дна океанов и морей, какие перспективы открываем перед человечеством это направление геологии.

The fundamental question underlying marine geochemistry is, ‘How do the oceans work as a chemical system?’ At present, that question cannot be answered fully. The past four decades or so, however, have seen a number of ‘quantum leaps’ in our understanding of some aspects of marine geochemistry. Three principal factors have made these leaps possible:
1    advances in sampling and analytical techniques;
2    the development of theoretical concepts;
3    the setting up of large-scale international oceanographic programmes (e.g. DSDP, MANOP, HEBBTE, GEOSECS, TTO, VERTEX, JGOFS, SEAREX, WOCE), which have extended the marine geochemistry database to a global ocean scale. <...>

Here is the first complete manual on Coastal Geology. A book that gathers the knowledge of more than a century of research on different geological aspects of the coast: dynamics of geological processes, geomorphology, sedimentology and stratigraphy. They are also reflected from the applications of these sciences to the social problems and challenges of the communities occupying coastal areas. This manual collects many of my research experiences on different shores of the world, but almost everything written in this book I learned in other books.

В книге дается монографическое описание рельефа платформенных равнин суши и дна морей на основе их картографирования методом раздельного показа морфо-структуры и морфоскульптуры. Книга комментирует впервые созданную в СССР Геоморфологическую карту СССР масштаба 1-2,5 млн.