Travels in Oceania, and Elsewhere - Hardcover

David Cronan has been involved in marine geology since the 1960s, during which time he has travelled extensively in all three major oceans, Pacific, Atlantic and Indian. He was introduced to the subject at Durham University, continued with it at Oxford University, and received a Doctorate in it at Imperial College's Royal School of Mines in 1967. After a brief spell working on the UK continental shelf for the British Geological Survey, he moved to a faculty position at the University of Ottawa, where he developed his interests in deep-sea sediments and minerals in collaboration with several Canadian and US institutions. In the mid-1970s, he was invited back to the Royal School of Mines, where he is now an Emeritus Professor, to direct teaching and research in the then newly established subject of applied marine geochemistry. It was in conjunction with this that almost all the travels described in this book were conducted.