Spotlight 4: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts
One of the longest seamount tracks in the Atlantic Ocean was formed by the Great Meteor or New England hotspot. This more than 3000-km-long hotspot track formed both the New England and Corner Rise seamounts, with a pause in volcanism 83 million years ago as evidenced by the morphological gap betwee...
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The Oceanography Society
2010-03-01
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| Series: | Oceanography |
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| Online Access: | http://tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/issue_pdfs/23_1/23-1_shank2.pdf |