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A specific feature of current scientific progress is a sharp increase of our knowledge about the world ocean, associated in many respects with a desire to put to rational use its nutritive, mineral and power resources. The avalanche-like growth of information about various processes in the ocean was the result of new opportunities for its study, using up-to-date research ships, earth satellites and submersible vessels, and of the progress achieved in research techniques and in quantitative methods of studying the oceanosphere and the hydrosphere as a whole.
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Romankevich, E.A. (1984). Introduction. In: Geochemistry of Organic Matter in the Ocean. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49964-7_1
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