Sentences with phrase «seamounts form»
The Hawaiian - Emperor seamounts form a prominent «V» in the Pacific Ocean.
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Even parts of the sea that lack impressive corals or craggy seamounts can host important, if tiny, life - forms.
Moving tectonic plates sit above the mantle and carry newly formed seamounts away from the plume underneath — the oldest seamounts in a chain are therefore furthest away from the plume.
So yes, Rapa Nui sits way out in the ass end of nowhere, atop a seamount that has formed via the Easter hotspot, an upwelling of magma below the oceanic crust that has generated a range of undersea mountains (the Nazca Ridge) as the Nazca Plate drifted above it....
Non-market supporting services are provided by deep - sea ecosystems in the form of habitat provision, nursery grounds, trophic support, refugia, and biodiversity functions provided by assemblages on seamounts, coral and sponge reefs, banks, canyons, slopes, fjords and other settings (Armstrong et al., 2012; Mengerink et al., 2014; Thurber et al., 2014; Levin and Le Bris, 2015).
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.
seamount A mountain (usually formed by a volcano) whose entire structure sits below the surface of the ocean.