Sentence examples for a seamount from inspiring English sources

One exception to this is the submarine volcano Lō'ihi, a seamount whose summit caldera is 1 km (0.6 mile) below sea level and 30 km (19 miles) southeast of the island of Hawaii.

For example, the sea surface near a seamount is a few metres farther from the Earth's centre than is the sea surface far from the seamount, and the sea surface over a submarine trench is a few metres closer than is the sea surface far from the trench.

"A seamount, for example, exerts a gravitational pull, and warps the sea surface outward," he says.

This area coincides with the location where a seamount is colliding offshore of Fukushima.

Each dot marks the position of a seamount, submerged pinnacles jutting up from the vast expanse of the abyssal plains.

A green arrow indicates a stress drop induced by a collapse of a seamount at the M9 hypocenter.

This study infers, from 2D seismic data, the presence of a seamount-related deep-water contourite depositional system, located on the northwestern margin of the Northwest Sub-Basin of the South China Sea.

The estimated effective normal stress (> 200 MPa) may be achieved by a subducted seamount with a base width of 60 km and height of 4 km (typical dimensions of large seamounts) as shown by Schloz and Small (1997).

This indicates that the effect of a subducting seamount for a plate boundary differs according to various conditions, e.g., the height and width of the seamount, temperature and pressure on the plate boundary, physical properties, and convergence rate.

Three tests are used to demonstrate the accuracy, stability, and applicability of the model: the diurnal cycling of the surface mixed layer, flow around a tall seamount, and a regional simulation of the California current system.

Therefore, the effect of a subducting seamount on an interplate-coupling state is now being debated.