How to Use seamount in a Sentence

seamount

noun

• 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
• 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
• The US Navy has not said exactly where the Connecticut hit the seamount.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Starting in the 1960s, seamounts north of the Hawaiian Islands were heavily fished and scarred with trawl nets.
  — Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• The shipwreck and seamount marks on in-flight maps are there to educate and entertain.
  — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2017
• 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 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
• The Home Reef seamount has seen four periods of record eruptions since as early as 1852.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Multibeam sonar image of Havre seamount, with the new cone formed during the July 2012 eruption marked.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2012
• 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
• 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
• This school was photographed at Bajo Alcyone, a seamount that peaks at a depth of 30 meters.
  — Enric Sala, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2015
• And in the case of underwater mountains called seamounts, that mark is literal.
  — Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2019
• The seamount has erupted several times over the past couple decades, most recently in 2015.
  — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
• In theory, Tim O’Hara had come to Paris to map the biodiversity of a faraway seamount.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This eruption started on September 10 on the Home Reef seamount, spewing lava into the ocean.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
• Whether seamounts play a similar role in other subduction zones remains to be seen.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 June 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
• 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
• Now, researchers believe it is concentrated at seamounts and ridges.
  — science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Extracting those metals would mean deploying robots to strip the upper layers of seamounts and sulfide deposits.
  — Todd Woody, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024