Author's Accepted Manuscript An introduction to the physical oceanography of six seamounts in the southwest Indian ocean Jane Read, Raymond Pollard www.elsevier.com/locate/dsr2 PII: S0967-0645(15)00224-6 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.06.022 Reference: DSRII3918 To appear in: Deep-Sea Research II Cite this article as: Jane Read, Raymond Pollard, An introduction to the physical oceanography of six seamounts in the southwest Indian ocean, Deep- Sea Research II, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.06.022 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. 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