Tasmantid Seamount Chain
Tasmantid Seamount Chain | |
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Location | |
Location | Coral and Tasman seas |
Coordinates | 31°00′S 156°00′E / 31.000°S 156.000°ECoordinates: 31°00′S 156°00′E / 31.000°S 156.000°E |
Geology | |
Type | Seamount chain |
The Tasmantid Seamount Chain is a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) long chain of seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean. The chain consists of over 16 extinct volcanic peaks, many rising more than 4,000 m (13,000 ft) from the seabed.[1][2] It is one of the two parallel seamount chains alongside the East Coast of Australia; the Lord Howe and Tasmantid seamount chains both run north-south through parts of the Coral Sea and Tasman Sea. These chains have longitudes of approximately 159°E and 156°E respectively.[3]
Like its neighbour, the Tasmantid Seamount Chain has resulted from the Indo-Australian Plate moving northward over a stationary hotspot.[4] It ranges in age from 40 to 6 million years old.[1] Alternative names for the Tasmantid Seamount Chain include the Tasmantid Seamounts, Tasman Seamounts, Tasman Seamount Chain, Tasmantide Volcanoes or simply the Tasmantids.[5]
Features[]
The Tasmantid Seamount Chain includes the following:
References[]
- ^ a b "Tasmantid Seamounts of Australia". Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- ^ Richards, F. D.; Kalnins, L. M.; Watts, A. B.; Cohen, B. E.; Beaman, R. J. (October 2018). "The Morphology of the Tasmantid Seamounts: Interactions Between Tectonic Inheritance and Magmatic Evolution" (PDF). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 19 (10): 3870–3891. doi:10.1029/2018GC007821. hdl:20.500.11820/10f58983-8003-4af7-8fdd-def2ed23b0be.
- ^ Van Der Linden, Willem J. M. (1970). "Morphology of the Tasman sea floor". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 13: 282–291. doi:10.1080/00288306.1970.10428218.
- ^ W. J. Morgan and J. P. Morgan. Plate velocities in hotspot reference frame: electronic supplement.
- ^ "Marine Gazetteer Placedetails". Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- Seamount chains
- Guyots
- Hotspot tracks
- Volcanoes of Australia
- Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean
- Landforms of the Coral Sea
- Tasman Sea
- Miocene volcanoes