PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY: The collecting of data -- Composition and properties of sea water -- Ice in the sea -- Movements of sea water -- THE SEA BASINS: The shapes of sea basins -- The evolution of sea basins -- THE INDONESIAN DEEP-SEA DEPRESSIONS: The origin of the indonesian deep-sea depressions -- Comparison between the indonesian deep-sea depressions and fossil sedimentation basins -- SOURCES AND TRANSPORTATION OF MARINE SEDIMENT: Sources delivering sediment to the sea -- Transportation of sediment in the sea -- THE FORMATION OF MARINE SEDIMENTS: Influence of bottom shapes -- The environments of marine sedimentation -- Classification and distribution of marine sediments -- Further aspects of sedimentation -- CORAL REEFS: Biological data and classification of reefs -- The influence of various factors on coral reefs -- The formation of atolls and barrier reefs -- GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE SEA FLOOR: Submarine valleys -- Submarine volcanic slopes -- EUSTATIC CHANGES OF SEA LEVEL: Recent eustatic movements -- Glacial and postglacial swings of sea level -- Eustatic shifts demonstrated by stratigraphy.
