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Recent Examples of seamountDusky sharks are usually coastal and associated with continental shelves, while Galapagos sharks prefer seamounts and remote islands.—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025 In the sneak peek clip, an array of ocean animals traverse great distances in search of food, including travelling to seamounts — underwater mountains up to three miles high.—Kelli Bender, People.com, 5 June 2025 Underwater volcano lurks off the Oregon coast The massive undersea Axial seamount volcano reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed about 300 miles off Oregon.—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 29 May 2025 Deep sea minerals are found across the globe There are three main critical mineral deposits in the oceans: crusts on seamounts, potato-sized nodules and hydrothermal vents.—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for seamount
Sun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.
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Aminatta Forna,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Aug. 2024
Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.
Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.
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Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
It’s made from durable, attractive stainless steel and has ergonomic knobs that are easy to grip.
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Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
With a jeweled design, bee detail accents, an amber lid knob, and a wooden handle, this tea kettle is elegant from top to bottom.
This is what inspired her launch of Power to Pursue, a women's movement that welcomes entrepreneurs, corporate professionals, stay-at-home moms and retirees alike to an annual summit.
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Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
The Budapest summit with Putin still lacks a concrete date, and appears another moment in which the Kremlin may seek to buy yet more time.
After breakfast, drive north from Palma about 25 minutes to the Serra de Tramuntana, a rugged mountain range (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) that covers the island’s northwest coast.
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Emilio Parra Doiztua,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
The storm is also bringing heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada, with snowfall totals forecast to be in excess of 3 feet in some parts of the mountain range.
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
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