They noted that the formation and evolution of both linear, well-organized seamount chains and isolated, scattered seamounts are closely associated with higher temperatures in portions of the ...

Over 40,000 seamounts—undersea mountains that don’t breach the ocean’s surface—are scattered across the ocean floor. Some form linear chains, while others occur as dispersed, isolated features that ...

The surprisingly circular seamount rises about 3,300 feet off the seafloor, and has “relatively steep, smooth sides,” scientists say. Saildrone image A mountain would seem to be a tough thing to miss, ...

Lord Howe Island sits about 600 kilometres off the New South Wales coast, a crescent of rainforest and sea cliffs that draws visitors for its spectacular beaches and its unique birdlife. Few realise ...

A single expedition to a cluster of remote seamounts in the Indian Ocean turned up 149 species new to science, ranging across corals, mollusks and deep-water fish gathered from underwater peaks that ...

(CNN) — A massive underwater mountain, otherwise known as a seamount, has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guatemala. The seamount is most likely a remnant of an ...

The study was published in Nature Geoscience on June 10. Using computer simulations, the researchers analyzed the spatiotemporal behavior of deep-rooted mantle plumes and their role in generating ...