Overview
- Wealth of new data and ideas from almost a decade of research by an oceanic island group
- Geographically defined research in a broad range of marine geophysical topics to address an international and diverse readership
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book contains the results of a 9 year (1995-2004) investigation of the Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, using state of the art technology. The main result areas are:
- A multibeam survey demonstrating the magnitude of catastrophic failures of the Canary Islands
- A comparison of the morphology of the Canary Islands with Hawaii
- The significance of hydrothermal activity in the Canary Channel associated with Mesozoic salt diapirs
- An analysis of the morphology and structure of the offshore extension of the Anaga massif in Tenerife island
- A detailed description of the archipelago gravity field and magnetic field of the Canary Islands
All in all the wealth of new data and ideas presented in this collection of papers has rarely been equaled in an investigation of an oceanic island group.
About the authors
Juan Acosta is the main researcher for the project of which the results are presented in this book.
Peter Clift has done his research and teaching at MIT, WHOI, and is currently affiliated with the University of Aberdeen. He has served and is currently Editor for several journals, amongst others Marine Geophysical Researches.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geophysics of the Canary Islands
Book Subtitle: Results of Spain's Exclusive Economic Zone Program
Editors: Peter Clift, Juan Acosta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4352-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3325-4Published: 27 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8902-9Published: 05 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4352-9Published: 31 December 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 169
Additional Information: Reprinted from Marine Geophysical Rsearches, Vol. 24, Nos. 1-2, 2003
Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geology, Oceanography