How to Use seamount in a Sentence

seamount

noun

• The seamounts are about 700 miles east of the Delaware coast.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
• The shipwreck and seamount marks on in-flight maps are there to educate and entertain.
  — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2017
• These cobalt crusts are found on seamount slopes, which contain vital metals such as cobalt, nickel, and platinum.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
• Whether seamounts play a similar role in other subduction zones remains to be seen.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 June 2023
• Now, researchers believe it is concentrated at seamounts and ridges.
  — science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
• And in the case of underwater mountains called seamounts, that mark is literal.
  — Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• And 600 kilometers to the east, there are more recent basalt seamounts at the bottom of the ocean.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
• As industrial trawlers bulldoze their way along, the surfaces of seamounts are reduced to sand, bare rock, and rubble.
  — Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
• That’s because the grooves were cutting through real-time tidal ripple marks moving through the seamount sediment.
  — Todd Woody, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
• Cobalt-rich crusts at seamounts Ferromanganese crusts are another source.
  — Leonardo MacElloni, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• The submarine will plunge down to Lō`ihi, a seamount off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2018
• The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
• This school was photographed at Bajo Alcyone, a seamount that peaks at a depth of 30 meters.
  — Enric Sala, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
• The navigational charts used by the ship's crew failed to show a seamount, or undersea mountain, protruding from the ocean floor.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
• Small atolls and seamounts northwest of the Main Hawaiian Islands are also believed to have been formed by the hot spot.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fox News, 31 May 2018
• The Home Reef seamount has seen four periods of record eruptions since as early as 1852.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Sep. 2022
• 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 seamount has erupted several times over the past couple decades, most recently in 2015.
  — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
• Thousands of deep-sea octopuses gather on the flanks of a seamount off California’s coast.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2023
• The scientists also observed that some of the lava had broken through the slow-growing mineral crust that covered the seamount.
  — Akila Raghavan, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
• The Georges Bank seamounts rise thousands of feet from the ocean floor and are home to large numbers of deep-sea corals and sponges, many of which are unknown to science.
  — Brian Skerry, National Geographic, 30 Mar. 2016
• Much of his work involved a combination of logic and chance — which also was involved in Sandwell’s discovery of the seamount.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
• In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
• But to be clear, a seamount about 100 miles west of San Diego known as Cortes Bank generates bigger bombs.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 May 2017
• Multibeam sonar image of Havre seamount, with the new cone formed during the July 2012 eruption marked.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2012
• Starting in the 1960s, seamounts north of the Hawaiian Islands were heavily fished and scarred with trawl nets.
  — Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• Research equipment on the seafloor near the seamount is part of a vast cable array that provides near-real-time data to Chadwick and others studying the volcano.
  — Kale Williams, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
• In theory, Tim O’Hara had come to Paris to map the biodiversity of a faraway seamount.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• However, little is known about the marine life found on seamounts, particularly those in the most likely regions for crust exploration and mining.
  — Leonardo MacElloni, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• This eruption started on September 10 on the Home Reef seamount, spewing lava into the ocean.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022