During the Eocene epoch, about 56 to 34 million years ago, this seamount would have been a series of islands above the ocean’s surface. However, due to volcanic activity, these islands slowly ...

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Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become islands). Scientists estimate that there are some ...

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain ...

Volcanic eruptions in the middle of tectonic plates, far from any volcanically-active plate boundaries, have created many of the thousands of ocean islands and seamounts that cover Earth's ocean ...

underwater robots with HD cameras are exploring Axial Seamount up close. They send back real-time footage of what’s happening beneath the waves, helping researchers understand the volcano’s ...

Monitoring of two volcanic seamounts beneath the Pacific Ocean reveals the pulsed nature of their eruption cycles. The Axial Seamount submarine volcano exhibits an inflation–deflation cycle ...

Researcher William Wilcock describes the process of planning and implementing the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Cabled Array along the Axial Seamount. This material relates to a paper that ...

have uncovered surprising evidence that the volcanic activity beneath Easter Island may have roots stretching back 165 million years. This revelation could reshape how you understand the Earth's ...

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A Pacific submarine volcano called Axial Seamount is likely to erupt in 2025, freelance writer Rachel Berkowitz reported in “An undersea volcano may soon erupt near Oregon.” Reader Ginger ...