: a submarine mountain rising above the deep-sea floor
Examples of seamount in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebIn the depths of the ocean, underwater mountains tower over the seafloor in a string of isolated islands.
Called seamounts, the protruding geological features are covered with a diversity of life seldom seen in other parts of the sea.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 May 2024 The seamounts are about 700 miles east of the Delaware coast.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024 To examine the seamounts, an underwater robot capable of descending almost 15,000 feet was deployed and found unique ecosystems across the seamounts, such as sponge gardens and coral reefs.—Priya Shukla, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024 See it Spark brittle stars likely live on rocky bottoms of the deep sea seamounts between about 770 and 860 feet down, researchers said.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024 To be classified as a seamount, the summits must tower at least 3,300 above the surrounding seafloor.—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024 The seamounts range from 5,220 to 8,796 feet high and reign over a mysterious submerged world that is largely unmapped, experts say.—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024 Extracting those metals would mean deploying robots to strip the upper layers of seamounts and sulfide deposits.—Todd Woody, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024 While prototypes of polymetallic nodule collectors have been deployed in the Pacific Ocean, machines to mine seamounts and sulfide deposits remain untested.—Todd Woody, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024
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