seamounts in English
He took advantage of the opportunity to record echo-sounding profiles across parts of the Pacific and discovered several flat-topped submarine mountains or seamounts .
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1. Atolls begin as an underwater volcanoes called seamounts
2. The seamounts stand out of the abyssal plain.
3. Some 000 miles of seamounts circumnavigate the globe.
4. Much thinner crusts occur on the steep flanks of both guyots and conical seamounts.
5. The Bathyal zone lies along the slopes of continents and on seamounts and underwater rises
6. Plankton, sea grass beds, kelp forests and coral reefs all find their homes in seamounts.
7. Some species are typically aggregating and may occur in vast concentrations (e.g., on top of seamounts)
8. The tops and sides of seamounts consist of ancient volcanic rock and rich precious minerals.
9. helped to advance our knowledge of the biodiversity of vents and seeps, seamounts and abyssal plains.
10. Marine Biotopes of hyperthermophiles are various hydrothermal systems, located at shallow and abyssal depth, and at active seamounts, e.g
11. As an important part of the Middle Pacific seamounts area, Co-rich crusts distribute widely in CL Seamount.
12. A variety of general habitat types can be recognized within the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, including abyssal plains/abyssal hills, seamounts and fracture zones.
13. Seamounts form from magmatic eruptions, which occur when lava seeps up to the crust through the partially-melted sub-layer, known as the asthenosphere, in the mantle.
14. Bathymetric features such as the continental shelf and seamounts interact with ocean currents and winds to produce regions of upwelling, where nutrient-rich waters are brought to the surface
15. Hammond (1979) argues that the Coast Range (believed to be seamounts that had previously accreted to the continent) were rifted away from the continent starting about 50 Ma ago (mid-Eocene).
16. An Aseismic ridge is a mountain ridge or chain of seamounts under the ocean. They do not produce seafloor spreading or seismic activity, except in the area of a “hotspot” at one end of the ridge
17. The Marine Protected Areas should be large enough to encompass major areas of the known benthic habitat types in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, including abyssal hills with and without nodules, rocky ridges and multiple seamounts of various elevations above the seafloor;
18. Summary outcomes of a workshop to design marine protected areas for seamounts and the abyssal nodule province in Pacific high seas, held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, United States of America, from # to # ctober
19. Polymetallic nodules are found on abyssal plains, which are without boundaries for the potential scale of mining, whereas both hydrothermal vents (the location of polymetallic sulphides) and seamounts (cobalt-rich crusts) are smaller-scale environments with distinct boundaries.
20. Polymetallic nodules are found on abyssal plains, which are without boundaries for the potential scale of mining, whereas both hydrothermal vents (the location of polymetallic sulphides) and seamounts (cobalt-rich crusts) are smaller-scale environments with distinct boundaries
21. Fe-rich, Ni- and Cu-poor nodules exist, mostly in the shape of polynodules, in the surroundings and on the slopes of seamounts and hills. In contrast to this Ni-, Cu- and Mn-rich nodules are distributed in the flat basin regions and have been accumulated within the uppermost 5 to 15 cm (peneliquid layer) of the pelagic sediment.