Circulating Seamounts (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Circulating Seamounts

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Studies by Andrew Fisher and colleagues have shown that seamounts provide conduits through which enormous quantities of water flow between the ocean and the rocks beneath the seafloor.

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Courtesy of Nicolle Rager

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