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 ...

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 ...

Naoki Saito, a researcher at the Integrated Research Center for Nature Positive Technology of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (and who is also affiliated ...

The islands of Fiji and Vanuatu rise from the tropical waters of the South Pacific in one of the most tectonically active and geologically complex regions of the world. A new study of volcanism in ...

Hoernle et al. 1 suggest that some seamounts and ocean islands in the Christmas Island Seamount Province formed from the melting and recycling of ancient continental material stored in the upper ...

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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 ...