How to Use seamount in a Sentence
seamount
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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
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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
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The US Navy has not said exactly where the Connecticut hit the seamount.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
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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
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Starting in the 1960s, seamounts north of the Hawaiian Islands were heavily fished and scarred with trawl nets.
—Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
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The shipwreck and seamount marks on in-flight maps are there to educate and entertain.
—Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2017
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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
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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
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The Home Reef seamount has seen four periods of record eruptions since as early as 1852.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Sep. 2022
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The seamount, located around 80 miles southwest of Monterey, Calif., is one of the largest seamounts in the world and known for its beautiful deep sea corals.
—Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
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Multibeam sonar image of Havre seamount, with the new cone formed during the July 2012 eruption marked.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2012
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The seamount formed about 145 million years ago at the south end of Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateau itself about the size of California.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2013
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This school was photographed at Bajo Alcyone, a seamount that peaks at a depth of 30 meters.
—Enric Sala, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
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And in the case of underwater mountains called seamounts, that mark is literal.
—Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
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The seamount has erupted several times over the past couple decades, most recently in 2015.
—oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
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In theory, Tim O’Hara had come to Paris to map the biodiversity of a faraway seamount.
—New York Times, 16 June 2021
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Almost everything on the sloping seamount below the R.O.V. was covered in a black iron-manganese crust.
—New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
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USNI News, which was first to report that the sub had struck a seamount, said damage to the forward section of the submarine damaged its ballast tanks.
—NBC News, 5 Nov. 2021
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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
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But then, just as Hercules crossed over a ridge, a curious sight floated across the screen: small, almost iridescent bulbs clinging to the seamount wall.
—Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
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This pumice raft (see right) is the product of a submarine volcanic eruption from one of the multiple of seamounts that are part of Kermadec arc north of New Zealand.
—Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2012
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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
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This eruption started on September 10 on the Home Reef seamount, spewing lava into the ocean.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
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Whether seamounts play a similar role in other subduction zones remains to be seen.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 June 2023
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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
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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
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Now, researchers believe it is concentrated at seamounts and ridges.
—science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
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Nearly the size of Connecticut, this new designation encompasses many of the unique canyons, seamounts and species in the deep New England waters.
—Smithsonian, 5 Jan. 2017
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Nearly the size of Connecticut, this new designation encompasses many of the unique canyons, seamounts and species in the deep New England waters.
—Smithsonian, 5 Jan. 2017
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Extracting those metals would mean deploying robots to strip the upper layers of seamounts and sulfide deposits.
—Todd Woody, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024
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