seamount

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Recent Examples of seamount The second looks to obtain cobalt-rich crusts that have accumulated over millions of years on the tops of seamounts between depths of approximately 3,000 and 8,000 feet, by peeling these crusts off from the bedrock. Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 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
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Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • The men claimed a pair of metal folding chairs set beside the campfire; Adi found a seat on a big knob of driftwood.
    Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Protect Hardware When Painting Painting can result in a real mess when stray streaks and drips land on handles, knobs, and pulls.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Having explored the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest, and the edge of space, Victor Vescovo knows what awe feels like in its most dramatic forms.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Next week’s inaugural critical minerals summit in Washington marks the White House’s latest attempt to build a counterweight to China’s dominance of African mineral supply chains.
    Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Earlier this month, a snowmobiler was killed in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range after an avalanche buried him in snow.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Away Lutsen Mountains is one of only a few ski resorts in the Midwest on an actual mountain range.
    Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • And yet, for the past 20 years, Ruzsa’s result has represented the pinnacle of progress on Chowla’s cosine problem.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The broadcast hit its pinnacle when the announcers moved aside and showed Honnold making his way up the building.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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