TY - CHAP
T1 - Oceanic Islands
AU - Nunn, Patrick
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Those of us who live close to the edges of the world's continents are likely to be familiar with islands, often as places for recreation or retreat. In the past, they were sometimes places of refuge for people or other biota escaping continental calamities ranging from warfare to ice advance. In a geological sense, such islands are commonly slivers of continent, their connections drowned by the high-sea-level conditions in which we live today. Oceanic islands are quite different, often smaller and more remote, and to find them, the continental dweller generally has to travel much farther offshore, into the hearts of the ocean basins.
AB - Those of us who live close to the edges of the world's continents are likely to be familiar with islands, often as places for recreation or retreat. In the past, they were sometimes places of refuge for people or other biota escaping continental calamities ranging from warfare to ice advance. In a geological sense, such islands are commonly slivers of continent, their connections drowned by the high-sea-level conditions in which we live today. Oceanic islands are quite different, often smaller and more remote, and to find them, the continental dweller generally has to travel much farther offshore, into the hearts of the ocean basins.
KW - Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
UR - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25116415
UR - http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520256491
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780520943728
SN - 9780520256491
T3 - Encyclopedias of the Natural World
SP - 689
EP - 696
BT - Encyclopedia of Islands
A2 - G Gillespie, Rosemary
A2 - A Clague, David
PB - University of California Press
CY - Oakland, United States of America
ER -