Sentences with phrase «seamount where»

The models show that water tends to enter the crust («recharge») through seamounts where fluid flow is easiest due to favorable rock properties and larger seamount size.

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The second spot was Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano, along with its associated hydrothermal vents, where the team could study the transfer of minerals from beneath the seafloor into the water and access hardy microbes that thrive in the vent fluids, which can reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

And certainly not in the deep sea, where coral reefs, seamounts and rugged canyons that harbour diverse marine life are being destroyed as trawlers head for deeper waters.

Near subduction zones, plates collide, forcing ocean crust down toward Earth's hot interior, where this crustal material melts, forming magma that rises buoyantly back to the surface and erupts to create volcanoes and seamounts.

The archipelago is enormous and there are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, other areas with astounding hard coral formations, sea grass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand, vertical walls, seamount's, ship wrecks, planes, shallow water lagoons, and massive pinnacles.

Description: Gordo Banks is a seamount 5 miles offshore where pelagic marine life sightings are common.

Further afield, there is heart - pounding adventure diving on reefs and seamounts along the coast where masses of large pelagic fish congregate.