The Mountain in the Sea: Winner of the Locus Best First Novel Award

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a b James R. Hein; Tracy A. Conrad; Hubert Staudigel. "Seamount Mineral Deposits: A Source for Rare Minerals for High Technology Industries" (PDF). Oceanography. Seamounts Special Issue. 23 (1). ISSN 1042-8275. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2010 . Retrieved 26 July 2010. Observations from CryoSat-2 combined with data from other satellites has shown thousands of previously uncharted seamounts, with more to come as data is interpreted. [35] [36] [37] [38] Deep-sea mining [ edit ] Isolated seamounts and those without clear volcanic origins are less common; examples include Bollons Seamount, Eratosthenes Seamount, Axial Seamount and Gorringe Ridge. [8] a b c Harris, P. T.; MacMillan-Lawler, M.; Rupp, J.; Baker, E. K. (2014). "Geomorphology of the oceans". Marine Geology. 352: 4–24. Bibcode: 2014MGeol.352....4H. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.01.011. NOAA Releases Plans for Managing and Protecting Cordell Bank, Gulf of Farallones and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries" (PDF). Press release. NOAA. November 20, 2008 . Retrieved 2 December 2009. [ permanent dead link]

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In 1922, this all changed when the USS Stewart, equipped with a Hayes sonic depth finder, crossed the Atlantic, passed through the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal, and on to the Far East for service from bases in the Philippines and China. Curiously, it did not encounter one stand-alone seamount on this initial transit, but in March of 1924, while transiting from Manila to Hong Kong, soundings showed a rapid decrease from 2,140 fathoms to 300 fathoms. A short development followed which revealed a relatively flat-topped peak with depths less than 200 fathoms. William Morris Davis (1850-1934), the Harvard geologist and geographer, was given access to the soundings and produced the first contour map of a seamount based on acoustic soundings and dubbed it the Stewart Bank. He foresaw the revolutionary aspect of acoustic systems and observed: “Clearly a new era of oceanic exploration and discovery is opening, when so admirable a use of a most ingenious instrument may be made….” Seamounts The first USS Tuscarora was a sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. In 1878, Alexander Agassiz, one of the greatest oceanographers of the nineteenth century, wrote: “The monotony, dreariness and desolation of the deeper parts of the submarine scenery can scarcely be realized. The most barren terrestrial districts must seem diversified when compared with the vast expanse of ooze which covers the deeper parts of the ocean – a monotony only relieved by the fall of dead carcasses of pelagic animals and plants, which slowly find their way from the surface to the bottom, and supply the principal food for the scanty fauna found living there.” Una historia bien hilada, y por encima de todo, fascinante e interesante. Los capítulos son un bocadito. Esto hace que sea fácil devorar el libro.Con Dao had been his home—the first he had ever had. What happened at the ship took that from him. That was the story he had wanted to tell. But the woman from DIANIMA wouldn’t have understood anyway. The car entered the dark town clamped between forest and ocean. The heavy red-tiled roofs of the French colonial buildings dripped with rain, their stucco walls stained with tropical damp. Their shutters were closed, their gardens overrun with vine and moss. Here and there, a brutalist Communist building broke the sequence: a high school, the Communist Party administrative building. Concrete monsters damp with lichen, colorless in the night. Before seamounts and their oceanographic impact can be fully understood, they must be mapped, a daunting task due to their sheer number. [5] The most detailed seamount mappings are provided by multibeam echosounding ( sonar), however after more than 5000 publicly held cruises, the amount of the sea floor that has been mapped remains minuscule. Satellite altimetry is a broader alternative, albeit not as detailed, with 13,000 catalogued seamounts; however this is still only a fraction of the total 100,000. The reason for this is that uncertainties in the technology limit recognition to features 1,500m (4,921ft) or larger. In the future, technological advances could allow for a larger and more detailed catalogue. [24] But this book isn't a dense, philosophical treatise. It's intensely tactile, too. It creates and lives within its own world. It draws you in. You can feel the rough corals, taste the salty spray, smell the coppery blood of many characters who come to some pretty rough ends. It ishardly possible to discuss the configuration of the deep ocean bed without eventually using the term ‘seamount’. Today, the existence of tens of thousands if not over 100,000 seamounts is taken for granted. However, in the not so distant past, their existence was unknown and not even suspected.