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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...

Naoki Saito, a researcher at the Integrated Research Center for Nature Positive Technology of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (and who is also affiliated ...

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The ocean floor is littered with hundreds of thousands of mostly extinct volcanoes. The origin of at least some of these seamounts seems to rest with mantle plumes. A recent census suggests that ...

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 ...

Hoernle et al.1suggest 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 mantle.