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  title info:
    title: Surtsey
    sub title: evolution of life on a volcanic island
  name:
    name part: Sturla Friðriksson
    name part: 1922-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1975
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (10 unnumbered pages, 198 pages, leaf of plates pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
  abstract: Surtsey: Evolution of Life on a Volcanic Island focuses on the origin of life in the island of Surtsey. The book first offers information on the Surtsey Research Society, conservation measures, and scientists that comprise the Surtsey research team. The text then focuses on the submarine eruptions off the coasts of Iceland, the flow of lava, and the formation and disappearance of islets. The book also describes the landscape that came about after the eruption. The tephra cones of the Surtur I and II craters, lava, coastal plains, and thermal areas are discussed. The text also underscores the e.
  table of contents: Front Cover; Surtsey: Evolution of Life on a Volcanic Island; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; THE SURTSEY RESEARCH SOCIETY; CONSERVATION MEASURES; THE SCIENTISTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. GEOLOGICAL NOTES ; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; SUBMARINE ERUPTIONS OFF THE COASTS OF ICELAND; THE PRELUDE; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. THE ERUPTION STARTS; THE LAVA FLOW; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. THE FORMATION AND DISAPPEARANCE OF ISLETS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. LANDSCAPE; THE TEPHRA; THE LAVA; THE COASTAL PLAINS; THERMAL AREAS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. CLIMATE.
  table of contents: THE LICHENSTHE MOSSES; THE SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION; THE LOCAL REPRODUCTION OF MOSS; THE HABITATS; THE BIOMASS OF THE VEGETATION ON SURTSEY AND HEIMAEY; THE VASCULAR PLANTS; THE TERRESTRI ALANIMALS; THE MICROFAUNA; THE TERRESTRIAL INVERTEBRATES; ORIGIN AND COLONISATION; THE BIRDS; THE VEGETATION OF THE ADJACENT LAND MASSES; REFERENCES; Chapter 15. THE OUTER WESTMAN ISLANDS; TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; METHOD OF RESEARCH; THE PLANT COMMUNITIES; NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS; THE VEGETATION OF THE SMALLER ISLANDS; REFERENCES; Chapter 16. THE VEGETATION OF HEIMAEY; THE TOPOGRAPHY.
  table of contents: THE VEGETATIONTHE ERUPTION ON HEIMAEY; REFERENCES; Chapter 17. THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ICELAND; REFERENCES; Chapter 18. SOME CONCLUSIONS AND SPECULATIONS; THE DISPERSAL; THE SUCCESSIONS; SURTSEY AND OTHER ISLANDS; REFERENCES; Chapter 19. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; INDEX.
  note: Sturla Fridriksson.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ic---
  subject:
    topic: Island ecology
    geographic: Iceland
    geographic: Surtsey
  subject:
    geographic: Surtsey (Iceland)
  subject:
    topic: Écologie des îles
    geographic: Islande
    geographic: Surtsey
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Biology
  subject:
    topic: Island ecology
  subject:
    geographic: Iceland
    geographic: Surtsey
  subject:
    topic: Island ecology
    topic: Iceland
    topic: Surtsey
  subject:
    topic: Surtsey (Iceland)
  classification: QH166 .S8 1975eb
  classification: 574.5/09491/2
  classification: 7,22
  classification: CE 541
  classification: CC 531
  classification: NX 86 (S)
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    title info:
      title: Surtsey
    name:
      name part: Sturla Friðriksson, 1922-
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  identifier: 9781483100401
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 140627
    record change date: 20260326205525.9
    record identifier: in00005755337
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng