Sentences with phrase «volcanic seamount»
There are nearly 20 dive sites around this volcanic seamount, which is home to some 260 species of fish.
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Volcanic seamount chains such as Hawaii were created from magma produced near the surface by mantle plumes.
Professor Müller concluded: «Our results help resolve a major enigma of why volcanic seamount chains on the same tectonic plate can have very different shapes.
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The study shows that mounds of old volcanic rock, called seamounts, are the drains and spigots for a vast plumbing system that pumps hot, mineral - rich fluids under the sea floor.
Because volcanic rocks are porous, some oceanographers speculated that cold seawater percolates into seamounts, warms up in the crust, and emerges at other seamounts as mineral - rich fluids.
Map of part of the Pacific basin showing the volcanic trail of the Hawaiian hotspot — 6,000 - km - long Hawaiian Ridge - Emperor Seamounts chain.
The last significant volcanic eruption, the Capelinhos volcano (Vulcão dos Capelinhos), occurred off the coast of the island of Faial in 1957; the most recent volcanic activity occurred in the seamounts and submarine volcanoes off the coast of Serreta and in the Pico - São Jorge Channel.
Featured lists: List of volcanoes in Indonesia • List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian — Emperor seamount chain • List of largest volcanic eruptions
The crystals are derived from volcanic ash deposits erupted explosively at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge, in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
Lesson 1 - Plate Tectonics Lesson 2 - Mid-Ocean Ridges Lesson 3 - Deep - Sea Corals Lesson 4 - Subduction Zones Lesson 5 - Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life Lesson 6 - Deep - Sea Benthos Lesson 7 - Water Cycle Lesson 8 - Ocean Currents Lesson 9 - Ocean Waves Lesson 10 - Tides Lesson 11 - Energy from the Oceans Lesson 12 - Food, Water, and Medicine from the Sea Lesson 13 - Hurricanes Lesson 14 - Seamounts An average of 2,000 strong earthquakes and large volcanic eruptions occur every year all around the world.