Motion, Commotion, and Biophysical Connections at Deep Ocean Seamounts

Seamounts attract the attention of physical oceanographers for a variety of reasons: seamounts play a special role in ocean biology; they may be hydrothermally and magmatically active and thereby feed the ocean with heat, chemical constituents, and microbes; they help convert ocean tidal energy into...

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Main Authors: J. William Lavelle, Christian Mohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2010-03-01
Series:Oceanography
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Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/23_1/23-1_lavelle.pdf