Tragedy of Abyssal Commodity: Deep Sea Mining and Corals
Deep-Sea floor was once a receptacle for military waste in the sixties, as revealed in the MIZAR cruises in the DWD Dumpsite off New Jersey where this author photographed with US Navy's FISH (Fully Instrumented Sonar Housing) vast patches of dead sea urchin Echinus affinis on sea floor where a 'Liberty ship' was sunk with nerve gas cylinders in caskets. After the 1972 London Convention for prevention of marine pollution of dumping wastes and other material, deep-sea dumping was made illegal (Hollis, 2012) although marine debris is still an ongoing problem on ocean floor at abyssal depths. CONTENTS Chapter 1.Abuse of the Abyss: Anthropogenic T…
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- ISBN: 978-3-330-32252-3
- EAN: 9783330322523
- Produktnummer: 37526956
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 56 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.3 cm 102 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 102
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Dr. Robert Y. George is an oceanographer who received his M.SC (1960) and Ph.D. (1963) from the University of Madras in India. He led five expeditions to Antarctica. Prof. George is author of 4 books and 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
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