New Zealand map showing Pāpaku Seamount (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

New Zealand map showing Pāpaku Seamount

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Pāpaku Seamount lies east of New Zealand’s North Island, on the Hikurangi subduction zone. In 2018 scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics led the first ever 3D seismic survey of the seamount and its surroundings (green-shaded area).

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University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

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