Seamount

One of the highlights of the 2009 mission was the August 25 discovery of an underwater mountain, known as a seamount, by scientists aboard the Healy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The island group represents the exposed peaks of a large volcanic seamount which is about 65 km long and 24 km wide and which rises from ocean depths of over 1,800 m. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'seamount', residing 120 km off the central California coast in approximately 3600 m of water ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this event did turn out to be a seamount, Reggie would get the credit for discovering it. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2010)

Maybe the seamount has been building for a while and now a major eruption triggered a landslide down the face of it. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2010)

CenSeam will: coordinate existing and planned programs for maximum benefit through encouraging community networking catalyze new seamount sampling activities offer mini-grants to expand the scope of surveys/data collection/analysis align research approaches and data collection ensure that opportunities for collaboration between programs are maximized integrate and analyze incoming information to create new knowledge consolidate and synthesize existing data, e.g., historical data that to date has been functionally inaccessible to the scientific community ❋ Unknown (2010)

Through the Census of Marine life we invite you to be a part of our research, join in our surveys, have a look at the creatures that we find and learn how to play a role in seamount conservation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A new seamount was a rare phenomenon, essentially the birth of a new island. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2010)

But second—and this is the exciting part—it could be a new seamount. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2010)

If the seamount got high enough, it broke through the surface of the water, which is exactly how the Hawaiian Islands were formed and were still forming, as the continual eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island spectacularly demonstrated. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2010)

Eventually, the seamount sinks below the sea surface, while the coral reef continues to grow upward resulting in the characteristic donut-shaped reef enclosing a central lagoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Atolls begin by colonizing a seamount or volcano, and then grow upward as the seamount sinks and/or as sea level rises. ❋ Unknown (2010)

‘We saw dying fish, squid, and so on, raining down onto the seamount, where they were jumped on by the volcano shrimp – a lovely adaptation to exploiting the noxious effects of the volcano,’ Tunnicliffe said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ROBERTS: And in your experience, when they continue to work in the depth of water that this plane might be in by looking at the ocean floor depending on, you know, if it rolled into a canyon or if it's sitting on top of a seamount, it could be anywhere between maybe 2,000 feet deep to 14,000 feet deep. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An atoll is thought to begin as living corals colonize and build a fringing reef on the flanks of a seamount or volcano. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Atolls are circular, oval, or horseshoe-shaped arrays of coral reef islands that are perched around an oceanic volcanic seamount and encircle a shallow central lagoon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are four shield volcanoes among the twelve volcanic island World Heritage sites: 2,745 m snowbound Mt. Mawson on Heard Island, and the Subantarctic islands off southern New Zealand (705 m high) are climatically not very comparable, the subtropical Lord Howe Island seamount group off Australia (875 m high) and cool temperate Inaccessible Island in the south Atlantic (600 m high) have similarities but both are dormant and much eroded. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Malpelo is an isolated basaltic seamount with sheer cliffs rising 4,000 m above the ocean floor which extends 240 by 80 km under water. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Endemism describes species that are native to or present at only one seamount. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): low, flat, sandy; likely volcanic seamount ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Daves] [mom] seamounted [Ryan] ❋ Daves Moms (2010)