Apr 11, 2024 · Seamounts also attract an abundance of marine life and are productive fishing grounds more than 80 commercial species worldwide. At the same time, coral mining and fish …

A key question is under what conditions a subducted seamount will generate or stop megathrust earthquakes. Here we show results from numerical experiments in the framework of rate- and …

Publications: Jordan, T. H., H. W. Menard, and D.K. Smith, Density and size distribution of seamounts in the eastern Pacific inferred from wide-beam sounding data, J ...

At Axial Seamount, WHOI scientists filmed vibrant life at deep-sea vents—ecosystems powered by chemosynthetic microbes in total darkness.

Jun 10, 2024 · A new study investigates how the influence of low gravity, as found on ocean worlds in our solar system, impacts flows of water and heat below their seafloors.

Nov 6, 2007 · The entire top of one seamount, Kükenthal Peak, is denuded, Waller said, and on another, Yakutat Seamount, “the number of live corals documented on the plateau was …

The Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot track has a prominent bend that has been interpreted to record a change in plate motion traced by the Hawaiian hotspot fixed in the deep mantle. However, …

May 17, 2022 · Kelvin Seamount Seamounts are well-known as biological "hotspots"-places where conditions converge to support a large number and wide diversity of animal and plant …

Sep 26, 2024 · This map shows a whirlpool that hovered over a seamount north of the Orkney Islands and posed a dangerous threat to mariners. It also reveals a precise understanding of …

Watts et al. (1988) reported total fusion 40Ar/39Ar ages from nine seamounts that span the entire length of the Louisville seamount trail and that produced a surprisingly linear age progression …