: a submarine mountain rising above the deep-sea floor
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The data revealed that whale sharks tend to follow paths that connect key feeding grounds, with seamounts and industrial infrastructure acting as stepping stones along their journey.—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025 Now, with the seamount's surface rising to 95 percent of its pre-2015 eruption level, researchers anticipate a new eruption within the next two years.—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025 Under chemical analysis, scientists were able to reconstruct past environmental changes like ocean temperature shifts and the eruptions of underwater seamounts, which left their marks on the ancient sponge.—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for seamount
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