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. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Howe Island Group, Australia] Reference
'seamount', residing 120 km off the central California coast in approximately 3600 m of water. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
A multi-beam representation of a seamount called Sonne. From Wordnik.com. [Seamount] Reference
Tromelin Island: low, flat, sandy; likely volcanic seamount. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
But OJIN seamount is located in Pacific Ocean east of Japan. From Wordnik.com. [1-18-08.com - Photo #6] Reference
Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): low, flat, sandy; likely volcanic seamount. From Wordnik.com. [French Southern and Antarctic Lands] Reference
Each island group sits atop a volcanic seamount in the Vening Meinesz chain. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests] Reference
Endemism describes species that are native to or present at only one seamount. From Wordnik.com. [Seamount] Reference
Rather, it was a seamount, a volcanic upthrusting of rock from the ocean floor. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
She envisioned floating hotels anchored above or near the seamount reefs and atolls-and chided herself. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
In some cases 70 percent of the species appeared to be unique to their particular seamount, said Grassle. From Wordnik.com. [Sea Knowledge Not Very Deep] Reference
Atolls begin by colonizing a seamount or volcano, and then grow upward as the seamount sinks and/or as sea level rises. From Wordnik.com. [Coral reef] Reference
Bassas da India: A French possession since 1897, this atoll is a volcanic seamount surrounded by reefs and awash at high tide. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Beyond the Queen Charlotte Shelf is a large seamount – an underwater volcanic rise that has a height of over three kilometres. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Ocean] Reference
The Lord Howe seamount is near the southern end of a chain of such seamounts, mostly below sea level, extending for over 1,000 km. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Howe Island Group, Australia] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia] Reference
Researchers will explore the 30-mile long, 9000-foot high seamount that rises from the ocean floor roughly 80 miles southwest from Monterey. From Wordnik.com. [Fact Sheet On Launching A New Era Of Ocean Exploration] Reference
It wouldn't be the first time the seamount has collapsed. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Earth] Reference
Orange roughy therefore find a refuge from exploitation on this seamount. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
This small seamount had been heavily fished, but in 2001 was closed to trawling. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The Marsili seamount off the coast of Italy is unstable but no one knows when it will collapse. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
Coast Guard Cutter Healy have mapped in three dimensions a seamount rising 3,600 feet from the seafloor. From Wordnik.com. [Wash Post North America] Reference
Corals that lie on seamount flanks, below the reach of nets, face a different threat: ocean acidification. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
California Media: Big marine sanctuary gets a new seamount (and crazy giant wave surfers catch a break …). From Wordnik.com. [Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Reference
Marine scientists have likened seamount to unexplored islands - each one containing animals never seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Isolated perhaps to a single seamount, species evolve separately over eons, like animals on islands above the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Millions of brittle stars -- animals with five arms -- colonize the peak of a seamount off the coast of New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
In addition, the Vavilov seamount, around 200 kilometres north-west of Marsili, is made of similarly porous material. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Earth] Reference
This is an aggregation of orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) at 890-m water depth on the summit of Morgue seamount. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Salt Dome Mountain is an unexpectedly shallow seamount rising from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico to within 200 feet of the surface. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Deepwater Drilling Ban Costs 23,000 Oil Jobs] Reference
Sofold is in reality built atop a seamount, while the mountaintops of Poyolavomaar would be-come true islands. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
Ive found a prospected site for a drill in the ojin seamount ojin was the son and successor to emperor chuai and naturally the next site. From Wordnik.com. [Tagruato Update - RRC Article] Reference
(An underwater geologic feature needs to extend at least 1,000 meters above the seafloor to quality as a seamount. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
Deep-sea core MD04-2845 (45°20′86N; 5°13′17W, 4175 m water depth) was retrieved 350 km west of Bordeaux from the Gascogne seamount (. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Cortes Bank, a treacherous seamount 100. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
30% to 50% of endemic invertebrates per seamount). From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
More than 80 undersea volcanoes and a multitude of islands are dotted along the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain like pearls on a necklace. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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