Defining the word “seamount”

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2010-03Author
Staudigel, Hubert
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Koppers, Anthony A. P.
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Lavelle, J. William
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Pitcher, Tony J.
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Shank, Timothy M.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3553As published
https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.85DOI
10.5670/oceanog.2010.85Abstract
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.