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The Environment of the Northern North-Atlantic Ocean: Modern Depositional Processes and their Historical Documentation

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The Northern North Atlantic

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Humanity today is living in a fast-changing world. Our future depends on our ability to use the planet and its natural resources without destroying them, and to adapt to changes in the global environment in the very near future. This can only be achieved through an intimate understanding of the modem and past environments, and thereby its potential for change, especially with respect to basic rates of change, and to essential properties of the environment.

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Schäfer, P., Thiede, J., Gerlach, S., Graf, G., Suess, E., Zeitzschel, B. (2001). The Environment of the Northern North-Atlantic Ocean: Modern Depositional Processes and their Historical Documentation. In: Schäfer, P., Ritzrau, W., Schlüter, M., Thiede, J. (eds) The Northern North Atlantic. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56876-3_1

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