Investigating Seafloors and Oceans

Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid offers a bottom-to-top tour of the world''s oceans, exposing the secrets hidden therein from a variety of scientific perspectives. Opening with a discussion of the earth''s formation, hot spots, ridges, plate tectonics, submarine trenches, and cold seeps, the text goes on to address such topics as the role of oceans in the origi...