Ubiquitous and mysterious Tens of thousands of seamounts line the floors of the world's oceans, but exactly how most of these formed is unclear. Some, like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain that ...

President Laura Chinchilla has garnered accolades for the recent creation of the Seamounts Marine Management Area around Isla del Coco, Costa Rica’s legendary “Treasure Island” and national park ...

Scientists have uncovered a chain of volcanic seamounts towering up to three kilometres from the seafloor off Tasmania's east coast which are proving a food magnet for marine life. The underwater ...

Geologists have long assumed that the Hawaiian Islands owe their existence to a "hotspot" -- stationary plumes of magma that rise from the Earth's mantle to form Mauna Loa, Kilauea and ...

Hoernle et al. 1 suggest that some seamounts and ocean islands in the Christmas Island Seamount Province formed from the melting and recycling of ancient continental material stored in the upper ...

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The islands of Fiji and Vanuatu rise from the tropical waters of the South Pacific in one of the most tectonically active and geologically complex regions of the world. A new study of volcanism in ...

The first seamount in the Christmas Island Province formed around 136 million years ago. The spreading center continued to create seamounts until about 47 million years ago, when it migrated away from ...

Tens of thousands of seamounts line the floors of the world's oceans, but exactly how most of these formed is unclear. Some, like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain that extends northwest from the ...

If you ever find yourself on a leisurely submarine ride through the northeastern Indian Ocean, be on the lookout for some amazing views: more than 50 large seamounts, or underwater mountains, dot the ...