Sea+Mounts

===SeaMounts: are submarine mountains rising more than 1,000 meters above the surrounding ocean floor.It is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach the water's surface therefore it is not an island. Oceanographers say they are independent features. Because of their abundance seamounts are one of the most common oceanic ecosystems in the world. Because of their large numbers, many seamounts remain to be properly studied, and even mapped. There have been instances where naval vessels have collided with uncharted seamounts; for example, Muirfield seamount is named after the ship that struck it in 1973.However the greatest destruction from seamounts are flank collapses.as they get older, extrusions seeping in the seamounts put pressure on their sides, causing landslides that have the potential to generate massive tsunamis.Seamounts can be found in every ocean basin in the world, distributed extremely widely both in space and in age. Nearly half of the world's seamounts are found in the pacific ocean, and the rest are distributed mostly across the [|a] tlantic and  i   ndian oceans. Although seamounts have been sampled as far back as the 19th century, their depth and position meant that the technology to explore and sample seamounts in sufficient detail did not exist until the last few decades.Seamounts are and can be a risk to ships and navigation they are a hazard and should be avoided. ===



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