Sentences with word «seamount»

Large four peaked series of seamounts in open sea.

Examples of extinct volcanoes are many volcanoes on the Hawaiian — Emperor seamount chain in the Pacific Ocean (although some volcanoes at the eastern end of the chain are active), Hohentwiel in Germany, Shiprock in New Mexico, and Zuidwal volcano in the Netherlands.

«Undersea volcano: Axial Seamount off Northwest coast is erupting.»

«What accounts for the resilience of these corals on seamounts in the Pacific remains to be determined.»

«How the spectacular Hawaiian - Emperor seamount chain became so bendy.»

Forged and altered by volcanic and tectonic processes that are intimately linked to the deep earth, they are also being targeted by mining companies that hope to harvest the minerals that often collect around seamounts as a result of hydrothermal activity.

Tests in the Pacific Ocean showed that the instrument, a radar altimeter called AltiKa, can spot seamounts as small as 1 kilometer tall.

Here and there, those hilly plains are interrupted by underwater mountains called seamounts.

The Costa Rican government has declared the area Seamounts Marine Management Area, and it covers nearly a million hectares, or 3,861 square miles.

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.

«These findings suggest the shape of volcanic seamount chains record motion in the deepest mantle, near the Earth's core.

Amazing dive site: underwater seamount with slopes covered with many hard corals and soft corals reaching 25m.

Describing the decree as a day of national pride, Costa Rican Marine Program Coordinator for Conservation International, Marco Quesada said, «Creating a protected seamount area sets an important precedent.

At the same time, their isolation may also make seamount communities especially sensitive to human disturbances such as fishing and mining.

After a full breakfast was time for the second dive of the day, in Farondi Seamount.

«With the first pictures of the summit of the Karasik seamount we did not believe our eyes: It is overgrown with huge globular sponges.

To test that idea, researchers with the Ocean Drilling Program collected samples of volcanic rock from the older seamounts in summer 2001.

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.

That surface bends down a bit over seamounts, for example, pulled by the gravity of the giant structures, and it mirrors their shapes.

They run along seamount ridges.

We are near the Caribbean island of Saba, diving onto a deep water seamount known as Third Encounter.

Dive site is an underwater seamount full of soft corals, big boomies with glass fish below and many beautiful hard corals.

Thousand Threads is a game being developed by Seamount Games.

The team was the first to dive on several open - ocean seamounts in the monument, which were first mapped using high resolution multibeam sonar in 2014 and 2015.

Water tends to discharge where fluid flow is more difficult due to less favorable rock properties or smaller seamount size.

Around many seamounts in the Indian Ocean, which are often productive fishing areas, the team found accumulations of discarded fishing gear.

Seamounts also attract an abundance of marine life and are productive fishing grounds more than 80 commercial species worldwide.

The Hawaiian - Emperor seamounts form a prominent «V» in the Pacific Ocean.

Axial Seamount provides scientists with an ideal laboratory, not only because of its close proximity to the Northwest coast, but for its unique structure.

If there are additional reefs sprinkled across the Northwestern Hawaiian seamounts, Baco - Taylor wants to find them.

At Los Islotes — a steep craggy seamount leaping straight from the sea — observe a sea lion colony from the boat and skiff, or slip into a wetsuit for an early morning snorkel with curious, agile young sea lion pups.

But a new study demonstrates how a French radar instrument on an Indian satellite could greatly enhance seamount maps, putting submariners on safer courses while helping with climate science, fisheries science, and tsunami forecasts.

We went to the top of seamount where we found wobbegong shark and beautiful coral garden with many soft corals covering big boomies of blue magic dive site.

Divers will find that a short boat trip out to seamounts such as Roca Elefante and Los Frailes yields encounters with moray eels, lobsters, and even whale sharks.

New maps of Earth's seafloors derived from satellite data have identified thousands of previously unknown seamounts, faults and other tectonic features.

Where the chart said there should be an under - water seamount called Home Reef, they found an island, growing one explosion at a time.

Loihi Seamount, an active submarine volcano, is forming about 35 km off the southern coast of Hawaii.

The Louisville Seamount Trail is some 2,600 miles (4,300 kilometers) long.

At the same time, coral mining and fish trawling, using nets that rake up everything in their paths, have created indelible scars in the spectacularly diverse and abundant seamount ecosystems.

The 20 or so dive sites are characterised by large rocky seamounts, colourful corals and reefs with plenty of marine life for you to enjoy, including chances to see whale sharks.

According to Conservation International, Costa Rican Marine Program Coordinator for Conservation International, Marco Quesada said, «Creating a protected seamount area sets an important precedent.

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

The team plans to return to Hannibal seamount to investigate further.

How do you explain the Hawaiian Islands, and the potential for the formation of newer islands from the outlying seamounts as the Pacific Plate moves to the northwest?

Enzo Boschi of the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, Italy, used remote sensing to peek at the internal structure of the active Marsili seamount.

Scientists spotted this Chimaera, or rabbitfish, near a site known as the Northwest Guam Seamount.

Several other Pacific seamount chains also show similar bends at about the same time, he reports.

Related sites Ocean Drilling Program Details of Hawaiian - Emperor seamount drilling cruise U.S. Geological Survey background on the Hawaiian hot spot