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They are known to often form large aggregations, particularly around seamounts, oceanic islands, and along continental shelves.
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Satellites Map Out Seafloor as Never Before Why These Deep-Sea Species Are Vulnerable
Along ridges where seamounts can be large but widely separated, the seamounts are typically entire worlds themselves.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
After drifting over a seamount, it got caught in a water vortex caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain, which cause the iceberg to rotate about 15 degrees per day.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
The steep slopes, ridges, and tops of seamounts in the South Pacific and elsewhere are home to a rich variety of marine life, including large pools of undiscovered species.
—Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Satellites Map Out Seafloor as Never Before Why These Deep-Sea Species Are Vulnerable
Along ridges where seamounts can be large but widely separated, the seamounts are typically entire worlds themselves.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
After drifting over a seamount, it got caught in a water vortex caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain, which cause the iceberg to rotate about 15 degrees per day.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
The steep slopes, ridges, and tops of seamounts in the South Pacific and elsewhere are home to a rich variety of marine life, including large pools of undiscovered species.
—Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamount
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This metal lock has claws that grip onto the strike plate of a door, locking the knob in place once the door is closed.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
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Are automakers welcoming back physical knobs and switches?Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2024
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The summit, organised by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Muslim World League, included dozens of ministers and scholars from Muslim-majority countries.Reuters, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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Equipped with a team of expert adventurers that are well-versed in the natural splendor of Chile, this local company offers a diverse array of expeditions that span from heart-racing volcano summits to forays into some of the region’s most idyllic natural oases.Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
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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.Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
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Wimbledon, which has always been the pinnacle of tennis, is lagging behind in that respect.Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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His vision of Southern America, blasted by crime, poverty and inequality, has put him on Barack Obama’s annual reading list and at the pinnacle of contemporary Southern noir.Vulture Editors, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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