Sentences with phrase «seamounts such»

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Hotspots tended to be closer to shore and near features such as coral reefs, seamounts, and islands.

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting — after two scientists had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.

He spent the next decade and a half returning to the seamount, El Bajo, trying to understand what such huge aggregations of hammerheads were doing and how they navigated during their daily foraging routes.

Volcanic seamount chains such as Hawaii were created from magma produced near the surface by mantle plumes.

This finding suggests that any human activities that alter the seafloor, such as potential deep - sea mining, could have a big impact on communities of marine life around the seamount.

These major pH reductions are projected to occur over important deep - sea features, such as seamounts and canyons (Gehlen et al., 2014).

Home to large marine mammals, such as dolphins and whales and an extraordinary diversity of fish, together with exotic sponge and coral ecosystems, seamounts are among the world's greatest marine - biological treasures.

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.