Seamounts [electronic resource] : ecology, fisheries & conservation / edited by Tony J. Pitcher [and others]

Seamounts are ubiquitous undersea mountains rising from the ocean seafloor that do not reach the surface. There are likely many hundreds of thousands of seamounts, they are usually formed from volcanoes in the deep sea and are defined by oceanographers as independent features that rise to at least 0...

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Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via Wiley)
Other Authors:	Pitcher, Tony J. (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series:	Fish and aquatic resources series ; 12.
Subjects:	Seamounts.