Sentence examples for from the seamount from inspiring English sources

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.

Bottom currents away from the seamount are less or minimally intensified, generating contourite channels and furrows over the drift to the north of the moat.

However, because the earthquakes were oriented east west (the direction of the volcanic fault) and there was no volcanic tremor in seismometers distant from the seamount, Macdonald attributed the earthquake to faulting rather than a volcanic eruption.

The effects of other submarine volcanoes along the Pacific Northwest, including Cobb Seamount off the coast of Washington, can be noticed in the composition and abundance of the tiny floating organisms called plankton up to 30 km away from the seamount summit.

Figure 2 displays a distinctive split between the Australian shallow water sponges and four species collected from the seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge, south of New Caledonia (Figure 1).

Records of sponges from the seamounts of the world oceans (Figure 12) also confirm the earlier notion that the Indian Ocean is a poorly studied region.

On the other hand, Mochizuki et al. (2008) maintains weak interplate coupling around the seamount from the results of seismic surveys and laboratory experiments.

Now footage captured by the team shows how lava has spewed from a vent in the seamount to spread 1.2 miles (2km) across the ocean floor.

From base to crest, the seamount is 7480 feet tall, yet its summit is still 4101 feet below the sea surface.

Here we report of chromite phenocrysts that are replaced by rhodochrosite (Mn II) carbonate) in subseafloor basalts from the Koko Seamount, Pacific Ocean, that were drilled and collected during the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 197.

Analysis of samples gathered from the Franklin Seamount deposits indicate they consist dominantly of amorphous iron oxyhydroxide (two-XRD-line ferrihydrite), locally contain major amounts of birnessite and nontronite, variable amounts of hydrothermal opal-A, variable amounts of incorporated volcanic and biologically-derived detritus, and minor vernadite and todorokite.