Ocean Margin Systems

Introductory Paper.- Sedimentary Settings on Continental Margins - an Overview.- Continental Margins - Review of Geochemical Settings.- Imaging the Subsurface with 2-D and 3-D Seismic Data.- State of the Art and Future Prospect of Scientific Coring and Drilling of Marine Sediments.- New Technologies for Ocean Margin Studies - Autonomous Instrument Carrier Systems.- Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Are they the Ideal Sensor Platforms for Ocean Margin Science?.- Margin Building - Regulating Processes.- Physical Processes and Modelling at Ocean Margins.- Seabed Classification at Ocean Margins.- The Benthic Boundary Layer.- Ocean Margin Early Diagenetic Processes and Models.- Slope Instability of Continental Margins.- Margin Building - Regulating Processes.- Fluid Flow and Subsurface Material Transport.- Fluid Flow in Continental Margin Sediments.- Macrobenthic Activity and its Effects on Biogeochemical Reactions and Fluxes.- Cold Seep Communities on Continental Margins: Structure and Quantitative Distribution Relative to Geological and Fluid Venting Patterns.- The Importance of Mineralization Processes in Surface Sediments of Continental Margins.- Numerical Modelling of Transport Processes in the Subsurface.- Subsurface Fluid Flow and Material Transport.- Benthic Population Dynamics and Relationship to Sedimentary Settings.- Benthic Biodiversity Across and Along the Continental Margin: Patterns, Ecological and Historical Determinants, and Anthropogenic Threats.- Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Slope Species.- Larval and Reproductive Strategies on European Continental Margins.- Factors Controlling Soft Bottom Macrofauna Along and Across European Continental Margins.- Reef-Forming Cold-Water Corals.- Life at the Edge: Achieving Prediction from EnvironmentalVariability and Biological Variety.- Microbial Systems in Sedimentary Environments.- Processes driven by the Small Sized Organisms at the Water-Sediment Interface.- Nucleic Acid-Based Techniques for Analyzing the Diversity, Structure, and Function of Microbial Communities in Marine Waters and Sediments.- Carbonate Mounds as a Possible Example for Microbial Activity in Geological Processes.- S. Guidard and the ODP "Proposal 573" Team.- The Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: New Insights in Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry.- Microbial Systems in Sedimentary Environments of Continental Margins.