| abstracts | The book „Geochemoistry of Baltic Sea Surface sediments” responds to a social demand and is addressed both to those specialists dealing with the Baltic Sea issue and to a wide circle of readers interested in geosciences.
It discusses the chemical composition of the sediments and the changes that took place during the last century. It also deals with a versatile analysis of the processes and interrelations between the individual elements of the marine environment: waters, sediments and organisms living at the sea bottom. The geochemistry of the sea sediments is an exceptional domain that links many branches of science, including sedimentology, mineralogy, chemistry, biology and oceanography. Therefore, thanks to the co-operation between specialists from the disciplines of geology, oceanography and geochemistry, it was possible to synthesise the Polish achivements concerning the studies on the sediments in the Baltic Sea, and to present them against a wider background of the work of scholars from other Baltic countries. The book includes numerous illustrations to help the reader understand the complex phenomena occurring in the marine environment. |
