Sentences with phrase «pacific seamount»
Several other Pacific seamount chains also show similar bends at about the same time, he reports.
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The Hawaiian - Emperor seamounts form a prominent «V» in the Pacific Ocean.
Finally, in the late spring of last year, the cable - laying vessel Dependable began stringing 560 miles of fiber - optic line from Pacific City, Oregon, to Hydrate Ridge and Axial Seamount.
«What accounts for the resilience of these corals on seamounts in the Pacific remains to be determined.»
Tests in the Pacific Ocean showed that the instrument, a radar altimeter called AltiKa, can spot seamounts as small as 1 kilometer tall.
A unique video has captured a surprise swarm of red crabs on the sea floor at the Hannibal Bank seamount off the Pacific coast of Panama.
Scientists exploring a seamount off the Pacific coast of Panama in 2015 found an enormous party of small, red crabs swarming all over each other.
UNOLS is seeking applications from early career scientists at U.S. universities who are interested in participating in an oceanographic research cruise that will continue an investigation of a chain of seamounts west of the East Pacific Rise at 8 ° 20» N followed by a detailed survey the East Pacific Rise ~ 9 ° 50» N that last erupted in 2005 - 2006.
Map of part of the Pacific basin showing the volcanic trail of the Hawaiian hotspot — 6,000 - km - long Hawaiian Ridge - Emperor Seamounts chain.
Geoscientists have just completed an expedition, part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), to a string of underwater volcanoes, or seamounts, in the Pacific Ocean known as the Louisville Seamount Trail.
The crystals are derived from volcanic ash deposits erupted explosively at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge, in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
To put it in context, the new Seamounts Marine Management Area is larger than Yellowstone National Park in the United States, and second only to Galapagos National Park in terms of marine protected areas in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.