seamount
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- noun
- /ˈsiːmaʊnt/
- Specialized
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montaña submarina
- We also wanted to know where the sharks went when they weren't at the seamount.
- underwater seamount
- chain of seamounts
- underwater volcano
Examples
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The NOAA scientists visited five seamounts between Oregon and Alaska thought to have been formed by the Cobb Hotspot.
Academic text (2002) -
Scientists used a mapping instrument aboard the research vessel Atlantis to create this three-dimensional map of Patton Seamount.
Academic text (2002) -
And the Navy submarine has worked the slope of the seamount...
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Shirley is interested in the reasons why, as well as the differences between crab communities on each seamount.
Academic text (2002) -
And in spite of what you see here, the top of the seamount is really very rugged.
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Rather, it was a seamount, a volcanic upthrusting of rock from the ocean floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
The first question, however, was whether the hammerheads were using the seamount strictly as a mating ground.
Academic text (1995) -
During past expeditions to seamounts, scientists have tended to focus on the tops of these underwater mountains.
Academic text (2004) -
Fishing effort was concentrated over shallow seamounts, where species comprising gray sharks were abundant.
Academic text (1998) -
The researchers discovered several unique species living at the seamount, which rises dramatically from the ocean floor.
Synonyms
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6.5
A raised, rounded part of a surface often found under the sea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Seamount comes from the two parts sea and mount, where mount means 'mountain' or 'to rise', so a seamount is literally a mountain that rises from the ocean floor but does not reach the water's surface.