Title
Under sea features
Abstract

This layer shows the location of underwater mountains that rise hundreds or thousands of feet from the seafloor in the WIO region. This layer was retrieved from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre as vector points

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Type
Vector Data
Keywords
seamounts , undersea features
Category
Geoscientific Information
information pertaining to earth sciences. Examples: geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth s rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, erosion
Regions
Africa , East Africa , Comoros , Madagascar , Mozambique , United Republic of Tanzania
Owner
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Purpose

This can be used for coastal and habitat modelling

Language
English
Supplemental Information

Seamounts also attract an abundance of marine life and are productive fishing grounds more than 80 commercial species worldwide. At the same time, coral mini...

Spatial Representation Type
vector data is used to represent geographic data
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    Owner

    MOZALINK

    Project Partners: IRD (REUNION ISLAND), CORDIO (KENYA), Eduardo Mondlane University (MOZAMBIQUE), IHSM (MADAGASCAR), Ulanga Ngazidja (COMORES), University of Dar es Salaam (TANZANIA)

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    cordio

    CORDIO East Africa

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    cordio

    CORDIO East Africa