Ubiquitous and mysterious Tens of thousands of seamounts line the floors of the world's oceans, but exactly how most of these formed is unclear. Some, like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain that ...

President Laura Chinchilla has garnered accolades for the recent creation of the Seamounts Marine Management Area around Isla del Coco, Costa Rica’s legendary “Treasure Island” and national park ...

Scientists have uncovered a chain of volcanic seamounts towering up to three kilometres from the seafloor off Tasmania's east coast which are proving a food magnet for marine life. The underwater ...

Geologists have long assumed that the Hawaiian Islands owe their existence to a "hotspot" -- stationary plumes of magma that rise from the Earth's mantle to form Mauna Loa, Kilauea and ...

The ocean floor is littered with hundreds of thousands of mostly extinct volcanoes. The origin of at least some of these seamounts seems to rest with mantle plumes. A recent census suggests that ...

The first seamount in the Christmas Island Province formed around 136 million years ago. The spreading center continued to create seamounts until about 47 million years ago, when it migrated away from ...

Tens of thousands of seamounts line the floors of the world's oceans, but exactly how most of these formed is unclear. Some, like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain that extends northwest from the ...

If you ever find yourself on a leisurely submarine ride through the northeastern Indian Ocean, be on the lookout for some amazing views: more than 50 large seamounts, or underwater mountains, dot the ...