Defining the word “seamount”

Defining the word “seamount”

Staudigel, Hubert; Koppers, Anthony A. P.; Lavelle, J. William; Pitcher, Tony J.; Shank, Timothy M.

Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/3553

As published: http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.85

Date: 2010-03

DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2010.85

Abstract:

The term seamount has been defined many times (e.g., Menard, 1964; Wessel, 2001; Schmidt and Schmincke, 2000; Pitcher et al., 2007; International Hydrographic Organization, 2008; Wessel et al., 2010) but there is no “generally accepted” definition. Instead, most definitions serve the particular needs of a discipline or a specific paper.

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Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 23, 1 (2010): 20-21.

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