From the Earth's Core to Outer Space focuses on four themes: (1)
Evolving Earth's crust, (2) Changing Baltic Sea, (3) Climate Change, and
(4) Planet Earth, third stone from Sun. The focus on these four topics
provides both a state of the art review of earth science topics of
particular importance to Scandinavia and the Baltic and also the global
context in which a consideration of these topics must be made. It
finishes by discussing our use of space born technologies for
understanding these topics and places the Earth within the context of
our neighbouring planets and their satellites.
The first theme includes papers on the structure, origin and evolution
of the Earth's crust and in particular the ore deposits in Fennoscandia,
plate-tectonic drift of Fennoscandia (Baltica), and postglacial
isostatic rebound of the crust. The second theme contains papers dealing
with changes in the ice season of the Baltic Sea, inflow and stagnation
in deep basins, biology of the Baltic Sea, and carbon dioxide balance in
sea water. The third theme deals with origin and evolution of oxygen in
atmosphere, postglacial climate change, effects of aerosols and
greenhouse gases on climate, interplay between anthropogenic and natural
factors in the current climate change, and Earth's water resources. The
fourth theme includes articles on Earth's space environment, use of
satellites in cartography and geodesy, information obtained by space
probes on Mars and other planets and their moons, and possibilities to
find life on them.
