Sentences with phrase «smaller seamount»

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

This finding is consistent with field observations suggesting that smaller seamounts are favored as sites of hydrothermal discharge.

Not exact matches

The earthquakes at Axial Seamount are small and the seafloor movements gradual and thus can not cause a tsunami.

Something — perhaps a seamount on the sinking plate — pinned the high - slip patch of fault in place for 500 or 1000 years, they argue, while patches around it failed repeatedly in smaller quakes.

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

Scientists exploring a seamount off the Pacific coast of Panama in 2015 found an enormous party of small, red crabs swarming all over each other.

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.