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2007, Oceanography 20(3):135–136, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2007.43
BOOK REVIEW | Seabed Fluid Flow—The Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment
Book Information | Reviewers | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation
Book Information
Seabed Fluid Flow—The Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment
By Allen Judd and Martin Hovland, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 475 pages, ISBN 9780521819503, Hardcover, $160 US, also available in eBook format
Reviewers
Gunter Wegener is a graduate student at the Research Center on Ocean Margins in Bremen completing his thesis on the biogeochemistry of methane oxidation in the seabed.
Antje Boetius is Associate Professor of Microbiology at Jacobs University and leader of the Microbial Habitat group of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. She is involved in several international projects on the microbiology and biogeochemistry of cold seeps.
First Paragraph
When their previous book Seabed Pockmarks and Seepages was published in 1988, Martin Hovland and Alan Judd were the first authors to illustrate and discuss global geological, geophysical, chemical, and biological patterns in seafloor structures related to fluid flow, especially those caused by eruption of gas. For many years, this book was the only comprehensive reference in the field of seepage structures. Only slowly would journal publications become available that connected fluid flow, seabed deformation, carbonate crust precipitation, gas emission, and methane-fueled benthic communities—just as proposed in a highly visionary manner by Hovland and Judd in 1988, based on seafloor surveys by the oil industry and governmental institutions.
Full Review
Citation
Wegener, G., and A. Boetius. 2007. Review of Seabed Fluid Flow—The Impact on Geology, Biology and the Marine Environment, by A. Judd and M. Hovland. Oceanography 20(3):135–136, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2007.43.