The sea floor : an introduction to marine geology / Seibold Eugen, Wolfgang Berger.

Origin and Morphology of Ocean Basins -- Origin and Morphology of Ocean Margins -- Sources and Composition of Marine Sediments -- Effects of Waves and Currents -- Sea-Level Processes and Effects of Sea-Level Change -- Productivity of the Ocean and Implications -- Benthic Organisms and Environmental Reconstruction -- Imprint of Climate Zonation on Marine Sediments -- Deep-Sea Sediments: Patterns and Processes -- Geologic History of the Sea: The Ice-Age Ocean -- Cenozoic History from Deep-Ocean Drilling -- Cretaceous Environments and Deep-Ocean Drilling -- Resources from the Ocean Floor -- Problems Ahead.

This textbook deals with the most important items in Marine Geology, including some pioneer work. The list of topics has grown greatly in the last few decades beyond the items identified by Eugen Seibold as central and now includes prominently such things as methane and climate change; that is, the carbon cycle and the Earth system as a whole.