Sentences with phrase «make seamount»

The study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

These factors combine to make seamounts fertile habitats for diverse communities of marine life, including sponges, crabs, sea anemones, commercially important fish, and deep - sea corals.

Not exact matches

Even the most advanced map made by that technique has trouble identifying and locating seamounts less than 2 kilometers tall.

Although they are often hidden beneath the ocean (often making them a navigation hazard, particularly for submarines), seamounts are nevertheless ubiquitous and fundamental geological features; studying them gives us insights into the forces that have shaped the face of our planet.

It makes for a perfect addition to your Cayman Dive Trip so you get to see the diversity of this amazing underwater seamount.

After rest and lunch we made the third dive of the day: Farondi Seamount.

One such gap was closed in January, 2005, when an American nuclear submarine making 33 knots 500 feet beneath the surface crashed headlong into an uncharted seamount 360 miles southeast of Guam.