
Seamounts - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2016年4月12日 · They are generally extinct volcanoes that, while active, created piles of lava that sometimes break the ocean surface. In fact, the highest mountain on Earth is actually a …
tional to the height of the seamount, or more precisely, the seamount-induced flexural displacement of the upper plate [Scholz and Small, 1997]. Assuming the seamount will flex the …
Coral Catastrophe on the Corner Rise Seamounts
Here, more than five species of coral blanket this boulder on the Yakutat Seamount, as well as many other species including brittle stars, starfish, crabs and molluscs. …
Life on Seamounts - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Paragorgia coral with yellow zoanthids & a pycnogonid spider, Balanus Seamount (Photo courtesy of Tim Shank, WHOI and DASS 2005, NOAA OE, URI, and IFE) TOPICS: …
ROV Jason explores Axial Seamount - Woods Hole Oceanographic …
2023年7月25日 · ROV Jason explores Axial Seamount July 25, 2023. During the PROTATAX23 cruise to Axial Seamount off the coast of Oregon, ROV Jason dove eight times, visited 19 …
Jaguar on the Seamount – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2015年12月7日 · Jaguar on the Seamount December 7, 2015. On a recent trip Panama’s Coiba National Park led by WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda, AUV specialist Jeff Anderson and WHOI …
An Oceanographer’s Atlas - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2024年9月26日 · “The flow of water will follow lines of constant depth, but if you’ve got a seamount, the lines of constant depth are circles, so the flow just goes round and round. That …
Emperor Seamount trend was principally formed by the rapid (over 40 mm yr −1) motion of the Hawaiian hotspot plume during Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary times (81-47 Ma). Evidence …
7 Places and Things Alvin Can Explore Now - Woods Hole …
2022年5月17日 · Kelvin Seamount is one of 30 in the New England Seamount Chain and rises from a depth of 5000 meters (16,400 feet) to 1500 meters (4,290 feet) below the surface. …
ROV Jason investigates purple microbes as Axial Seamount
In July 2023, researchers from #WHOI and Texas A&M University explored Axial Seamount with the underwater robot ROV Jason. Located 300 miles off of the Oregon coast, the area is home …