Ampère Seamount

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Ampère Seamount

Ampère Seamount is a seamount in the Atlantic Ocean, 410 km (250 mi) south-west of Portugal and 470 km (290 mi) west of Morocco.

It is located at 35°02'N and 12°54'W. This seamount is about 90 x 40 km, its base is at a depth of approximately 4,500 m (14,800 ft). The summit topography is rather disturbed with a summit plateau that is 6 by 3 km (3.7 by 1.9 mi) at a depth of 120 m (390 ft) and a peak reaching up to 55 m (180 ft) below the water surface.

References[]

• Hatzky, Jörn (2005), PANGAEA: Physiography of the Ampère Seamount in the Horseshoe Seamount chain off Gibraltar. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven

• Marine Regions · Ampère Seamount

• Published: 02 October 2014 The fish fauna of Ampère Seamount (NE Atlantic) and the adjacent abyssal plain Bernd Christiansen, Rui P. Vieira, Sabine Christiansen, Anneke Denda, Frederico Oliveira & Jorge M. S. Gonçalves Helgoland Marine Research

• Seamount Information: Ampere Seamount

• Biodiversity Inventorial Atlas of macrobenthic seamount animals, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg

• Ampere Seamount seafloor sampling

Coordinates: 35°02′N 12°54′W / 35.033°N 12.900°W / 35.033; -12.900

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