Sentence examples for seamounts from inspiring English sources

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.

Large ancient volcanoes are found singly or in rows in the basins; these rise to form seamounts and, occasionally, islands.

Scattered across Panthalassa within 30° of the Triassic Equator were islands, seamounts, and volcanic archipelagoes, some associated with deposits of reef carbonates now found in western North America and other locations.

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.

One way the organisers hope to entice users is by putting instruments on Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano about 480km west of Oregon that could erupt at any time.

Seamount chains in the Pacific basin tend to be aligned northwesterly, and several chains are intimately associated with fracture zones; the Eltanin Fracture Zone in the southwestern Pacific is an example.