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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 ...

Global map showing gravitational variations caused by topographic changes. In purple higher features like seamounts and in green lower features like rift zones. There are better maps of the Moon’s ...

An international team has published the first comprehensive study on the seamounts of the Cape Verde archipelago, their biodiversity, ecological functionality and socio-economic relevance in the ...

Researchers have discovered a pair of seamounts on the ocean floor that serve as inflow and outflow points for a vast plumbing system that circulates water through the seafloor. The seamounts are ...

Glowing red lobsters, octopus gardens, towering tree-like corals and glass sponges that are thousands of years old make up just a few of the life forms at this new seamount. When scientists say that ...

Oceanographers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography worked with researchers from Chungnam National University and the University of Hawaii to map 19,000 previously unknown seamounts around the world ...

BOSTON— President Donald Trump announced today that he is once again attempting to strip away critical protections for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. The monument’s ...

Massive sponge gardens thrive on top of seamounts in the Central Arctic Ocean, one of the most oligotrophic seas on Earth. They appear to feed on the remnants of an extinct fauna. Microorganisms ...