Seamount Characteristics

Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries & Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-25

  Wessel, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Big island; Fossil magma chambers; Mid atlantic ridge; Seamounts; Tomographic mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948732379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470691953.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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