Sentence examples for 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.

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.

At least one seamount chain, the New England Seamounts, lies in the northwestern Atlantic.

No seamount chains have been reported from the Indian Ocean, possibly because that basin has been less extensively surveyed.

The accident of elevation marks the difference between its existence as an unclaimable seamount — no more than a shipping hazard — and as a potentially hotly contested piece of actual, dry-land real estate.

Then in 2002, Rusty gave Greg his first Surfer magazine cover by towing him into a monolithic 60-plus-footer at the Cortes Bank, a treacherous seamount 100 miles off the San Diego coast.

Central to the case against bottom-fishing is the protection of underwater mountains, known as seamounts, which are especially rich in marine life of all kinds.

The process of fencing off seamounts is still at an early stage, though four clusters of them have been discovered and declared off-limits in the north-eastern Atlantic.

These flat-topped seamounts are called guyots.

The sides of larger seamounts generally are concave upward and rarely slope more than 14°; smaller seamounts lack this concavity and can have sides as steep as 35°.

The Ninetyeast Ridge stretches parallel to 90° E longitude in a long, linear chain of seamounts and volcanic ridges from the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal more than 4,500 kilometres (2,800 miles) to the south where it intersects Broken Ridge at 30° S latitude.