Acknowledgments
The work on an encyclopedia covering a wide disciplinary
field such as marine geosciences requires a wellestablished teamwork. First of all, we would like to
express our thanks to the members of the Editorial Board
who have helped to set up the list of entries that means
to define the scientific area to be covered by the encyclopedia. But members of the board also assisted in finding
the best authors for the topics defined and also to foster
the review process. Thanks also go to our authors for their
engagement in the project but also for their patience
because of the longer time needed finally for the completion than we expected at the beginning of the project. An
excellent cooperation took place with the reviewers and
we have to convey our gratitude explicitly, among others,
to Roger Anderson, Henning Bauch, Karl-Heinz
Baumann, Thorsten Becker, Wolfgang Berger, Jörg
Bialas, Svante Björck, Bodo von Bodungen, Peter
Bormann ({), Johannes Brumme, Hans Burchard,
Suzanne Carbotte, Rebecca Carey, Ronald Clowes,
Eduardo Contreras-Reyes, David Cronan, Colin Devey,
Tim Dooley, Joanna Dudzinska-Nowak, Christian Dullo,
Malte Elbrächter, Bob Embley, Wolfgang Fennel, Charles
W. Finkl, Burghard Flemming, Nicolas Flemming, Armin
Freundt, Peter Fröhle, Gerald Gabriel, Dennis Geist, Jörg
Geldmacher, Bruce Gemmell, Chris German, Daniel Gibson, Pieter M. Grootes, Marc Gutscher, Matthias Haekel,
Peter Halbach, William W. Hay, James D. Hays, George
Ross Heath, Jim Hein, Christoph Hemleben, Rüdiger
Henrich, Sebastian Hölz, Kaj Hoernle, Albrecht
Hofmann, Martin Hovland, Roland von Huene, Kim Juniper, Heidemarie Kassens, Christian Koeberl, Jürgen
Koepke, Heidrun Kopp, Martin Van Kranendonk,
Hermann-Rudolf Kudraß, Vladyslav Kuznetsov, Carina
Lange, Gert de Lange, John Lupton, Gianreto Manatschal,
Roman Marks, Jean Mascle, Philip A. Meyers, Paul Morgan, Johannes Mrazek, Yujiro Ogawa, Andrzej Osadczuk,
Mike Perfit, Jörg Pfänder, Teresa Radzie-Jewska, Mark
Reagan, Eoghan Reeves, Klaus Ricklefs, Karol Rotnicki,
Ralph Schneider, Michael Schnabel, B. Charlotte
Schreiber, Detlef Schulz-Bull, Wolfgang Schlager, Klaus
Schwarzer, Andrew Short, Roger Searle, Monika
Sobiesiak, Robert Spielhagen, Tarmo Soomere, Karl
Stattegger, Rüdiger Stein, Andreas Stracke, Kurt Stüwe,
Colin Summerhayes, Adam D. Switzer, Fred Taylor,
Frederik Tilmann, Barbara Teichert, Tony Watts, Gordon
Webster, Joanne Whittaker, Philip Woodworth, Jiaxue
Wu, Isobel Yeo, and Anastasia Zhuravleva.
Last, but not least, we have to mention that the work
would not have been possible without supervision and
active cooperation of Petra van Steenbergen, Sylvia
Blago, and Johanna Klute from Springer’s publishing
house.
Jan Harff
Martin Meschede
Sven Petersen
Jörn Thiede
The work on an encyclopedia covering a wide disciplinary
field such as marine geosciences requires a wellestablished teamwork. First of all, we would like to
express our thanks to the members of the Editorial Board
who have helped to set up the list of entries that means
to define the scientific area to be covered by the encyclopedia. But members of the board also assisted in finding
the best authors for the topics defined and also to foster
the review process. Thanks also go to our authors for their
engagement in the project but also for their patience
because of the longer time needed finally for the completion than we expected at the beginning of the project. An
excellent cooperation took place with the reviewers and
we have to convey our gratitude explicitly, among others,
to Roger Anderson, Henning Bauch, Karl-Heinz
Baumann, Thorsten Becker, Wolfgang Berger, Jörg
Bialas, Svante Björck, Bodo von Bodungen, Peter
Bormann ({), Johannes Brumme, Hans Burchard,
Suzanne Carbotte, Rebecca Carey, Ronald Clowes,
Eduardo Contreras-Reyes, David Cronan, Colin Devey,
Tim Dooley, Joanna Dudzinska-Nowak, Christian Dullo,
Malte Elbrächter, Bob Embley, Wolfgang Fennel, Charles
W. Finkl, Burghard Flemming, Nicolas Flemming, Armin
Freundt, Peter Fröhle, Gerald Gabriel, Dennis Geist, Jörg
Geldmacher, Bruce Gemmell, Chris German, Daniel Gibson, Pieter M. Grootes, Marc Gutscher, Matthias Haekel,
Peter Halbach, William W. Hay, James D. Hays, George
Ross Heath, Jim Hein, Christoph Hemleben, Rüdiger
Henrich, Sebastian Hölz, Kaj Hoernle, Albrecht
Hofmann, Martin Hovland, Roland von Huene, Kim Juniper, Heidemarie Kassens, Christian Koeberl, Jürgen
Koepke, Heidrun Kopp, Martin Van Kranendonk,
Hermann-Rudolf Kudraß, Vladyslav Kuznetsov, Carina
Lange, Gert de Lange, John Lupton, Gianreto Manatschal,
Roman Marks, Jean Mascle, Philip A. Meyers, Paul Morgan, Johannes Mrazek, Yujiro Ogawa, Andrzej Osadczuk,
Mike Perfit, Jörg Pfänder, Teresa Radzie-Jewska, Mark
Reagan, Eoghan Reeves, Klaus Ricklefs, Karol Rotnicki,
Ralph Schneider, Michael Schnabel, B. Charlotte
Schreiber, Detlef Schulz-Bull, Wolfgang Schlager, Klaus
Schwarzer, Andrew Short, Roger Searle, Monika
Sobiesiak, Robert Spielhagen, Tarmo Soomere, Karl
Stattegger, Rüdiger Stein, Andreas Stracke, Kurt Stüwe,
Colin Summerhayes, Adam D. Switzer, Fred Taylor,
Frederik Tilmann, Barbara Teichert, Tony Watts, Gordon
Webster, Joanne Whittaker, Philip Woodworth, Jiaxue
Wu, Isobel Yeo, and Anastasia Zhuravleva.
Last, but not least, we have to mention that the work
would not have been possible without supervision and
active cooperation of Petra van Steenbergen, Sylvia
Blago, and Johanna Klute from Springer’s publishing
house.
Jan Harff
Martin Meschede
Sven Petersen
Jörn Thiede