During the late sixties, the marine scientific community was becoming increasingly aware of the necessity of conducting process-oriented research on specific problem areas. It was assumed that the results of such detailed analyses would provide an explanatory framework for the descriptive data accumulating from the extensive surveys of the aceans at large that had dominated marine science up to that period. The physical, chemical and biological interaction between the ocean and the Sediments was i dentifi ed as one of the most important i nterdi sei p 1 i nary prob 1 ems at the 1969 meeting...
During the late sixties, the marine scientific community was becoming increasingly aware of the necessity of conducting process-oriented research on s...
