Sentence examples for The seamounts from inspiring English sources

"The seamounts rise from seafloor depths of approximately 4,800 metres to up to 130 metres from the surface (more than twice the height of Mount Kosciuszko), and are home to deep water shark species that are only found in Australia".

The seamounts of the deep may be a long way from our land but their reach is felt and they are woven into our future.

The seamounts are likely to be a source of larvae that maintains the population of the species in nearby, sub-optimal areas, known as "sinks".

The seamounts (Bear, Mytilus, Physalia and Retriever) and the submarine canyons (Oceanographer, Lydonia, Gilbert, Nygren and Heezen) are home to diverse and fragile habitats, including abundant and vivid deep-sea corals of otherworldly beauty -- some the size of small trees and taking centuries to grow.

The seamounts comprising the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain would be formed above the mantle plume and carried away from the mantle plume's magmatic source as the Pacific Plate moves in a northwesterly direction towards the Aleutian Trench, along the southern coastline of Alaska.

The seamounts stand out of the abyssal plain.

Subsequently, the behaviour and depositional processes of bottom currents upstream and downstream the seamount are discussed.

The ocean floor around the seamount is more than 10,000 feet below the surface.

The seamount was characterized by diverse and abundant benthic megafauna, which were used to analyse beta diversity patterns using novel landscape metrics, never before applied to the seamount benthos.

A team of support divers, encumbered with lights and power cables, hovered around him while he remained near the top of the seamount.

From the seismic data, the architecture of contourite deposits during progressive burial of the seamount is documented.