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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Joseph, Antony. Fonction indéterminée
Titre(s) : Investigating seafloors and oceans : from mud volcanoes to giant squid / Dr. Antony Joseph, formerly, Chief Scientist, Marine Instrumentation Division, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004, India [Texte électronique]
Publication : Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, [2017]
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-574) and index
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : chiefly color
Indice(s) Dewey :
551.46 (23e éd.) = Océanographie et géologie sous-marine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780128093573
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45250490f
Notice n° :
FRBNF45250490
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Front Cover; Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid;
Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The
Chaotic and Vibrant Seafloor; 1.1. Introduction; 1.1.1. Exposed Oceanic Mantle; 1.1.2.
Reversal of Earths Magnetic Field; 1.1.3. Consequences of Earths Magnetic Field Reversal;
1.2. Discovery of Formation of Different Continents from One Big Land Mass; 1.2.1.
Clues Introduced by Ortelius, Suess, Mantovani, Wegener, and Toit; 1.2.2. Hypotheses
Proposed for Explaining Continental Drift.
1.2.3. Arthur Holmess Proposal of Convection Current Cells in Earths Mantle in Support
of Continental Drift1.2.4. Studies of Earthquakes and Mountain Building in Support
of Continental Drift; 1.3. Evolving the Notion of Tectonic Plates Floating on Molten
Lava; 1.3.1. Discovery of Volcanic Ridge Systems Snaking Around the Globe in a Chain;
1.3.2. Discoveries of Zebra Stripe-like Magnetic Patterns and Increasing Age of Seafloor
with Distance From Ridge Crests; 1.3.3. Proposal of Seafloor Spreading Theory-Contribution
by Hess.
1.3.4. Plate Tectonics-Unification of Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading1.4.
Triple Junctions on Seafloors; 1.4.1. R-R-R Triple Junctions; 1.4.1.1. Afar triple
junction; 1.4.1.2. Rodrigues triple junction; 1.4.1.3. Azores triple junction; 1.4.2.
The Only Known T-T-T Junction on Earth-Boso Triple Junction; 1.4.3. Difficult-to-Classify
Triple Junction-Bouvet Triple Junction; 1.4.4. Specialty of Chile Triple Junction;
1.5. Rotating Microplates; 1.5.1. Clockwork Motion by Seafloor Microplates; 1.5.2.
The 2015 Discovery of the First Oceanic Microplate in the Indian Ocean.
1.6. Formation of Submarine Mountain Chains, Seamounts, Island Arcs, Mud Volcanoes,
Canyons, and Trenches1.6.1. Seafloor Mountain Chains; 1.6.2. Seamounts; 1.6.3. Submarine
Magmatic-Volcanic Eruptions and Island Arcs; 1.6.4. Magmatic Volcanoes Versus Mud
Volcanoes; 1.6.4.1. Seafloor mud volcanoes and cold-seep communities; 1.6.4.2. Island
mud volcanoes; 1.6.4.3. Coastal mud volcanoes; 1.6.5. Submarine Canyons; 1.6.6. Subduction
Zones and Submarine Trenches; References; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Secrets of Bermuda
Triangle and Formation of Polymetallic Nodules; 2.1. Introduction.
2.2. Riddle of the Bermuda Triangle Imbroglio2.2.1. Fire in the Sea; 2.2.2. Trawler
Wreck in Witchs Hole Pockmark; 2.2.3. Methane Hydrates and the Bermuda Triangle; 2.2.4.
The Role of Warm Gulf Stream; 2.3. Gas Hydrate Emission Can Drown Ships-Mays and Monaghans
Hypothesis; 2.3.1. Laboratory Scale Experimental Studies; 2.3.2. Numerical Simulations;
2.3.3. Criteria for Sinking/NonSinking; 2.4. Carpet of "Dark Gold" Paved Over the
Seafloor; 2.4.1. Devices Used for Collection of Polymetallic Nodules From the Ocean
Floor; 2.4.1.1. Boomerang Grab; 2.4.1.2. Dredge; 2.4.1.3. Box-Corer.
