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Fire under the sea : the discovery of the most extraordinary environment on earth--volcanic hot springs on the ocean floor / Joseph Cone.
- Title
- Fire under the sea : the discovery of the most extraordinary environment on earth--volcanic hot springs on the ocean floor / Joseph Cone.
- Author
- Cone, Joseph.
- Publication
- New York : Morrow, c1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GB1198 .C66 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 285 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Examines how the discovery of hot springs in 1977 on the ocean floor resulted in major developments in science and technology in the twentieth century.
- Subject
- Hydrothermal vents
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-273) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Toward an unknown region -- 2. Feats of scientific imagination -- 3. Making the revolution in earth sciences -- 4. Path of discovery -- 5. Images of a hidden world -- 6. In the hot springs of axial volcano -- 7. Out of the seafloor caldron -- 8. Exotic life -- 9. Edge of creation -- 10. Work at sea -- Epilogue : Broader views
- ISBN
- 0688098347
- LCCN
- ^^^90015574^//r91
- OCLC
- 22596377
- SCSB-9993842
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library