Sentences with phrase «seamount known»

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Researchers say it could boost the number of known seamounts from 10,000 to 100,000.

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 seamount, known as Twin, is perforated by a pair of large lava tubes that lead divers through the reef wall to a dramatic exit point at a depth of 110 feet.

The new seamount is small but unusual in its isolation (at least we think it's isolated — remember we didn't know it was there — and I suspect there are many others that we don't know about)-- but this one is sitting in the middle of nowhere in the abyssal plain and will only add to the mysteries of the origin of this part of the Arctic.

Underwater volcanoes, called seamounts, host a wide variety of corals in the Gulf of Alaska, and submarine Bering Sea canyons deeper and longer than the Grand Canyon are home to the second-most dense and diverse areas of Alaska coral areas known.