The New England Seamounts is a chain of over twenty underwater extinct volcanic mountains known as seamounts.[1] This chain is located off the coast of Massachusetts in the Atlantic Ocean and extends over 1,000 km from the edge of Georges Bank. Many of the peaks of these mountains rise over 4,000 m from the seabed.[2][3] The New England Seamounts chain is the longest such chain in the North Atlantic and is home to a diverse range of deep sea fauna.[3] Scientists have visited the chain on various occasions to survey the geologic makeup and biota of the region. The chain is part of the Great Meteor hotspot track and was formed by the movement of the North American Plate over the New England hotspot. The oldest volcanoes that were formed by the same hotspot are northwest of Hudson Bay, Canada. Part of the seamount chain is protected by Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
A variety of different names have been used to refer to this seamount range, including the Kelvin Seamounts, Kelvin Seamount Group, Kelvin Banks, New England Seamount Chain and the Bermuda-New England Seamount Arc (including the Bermuda Pedestal, which contains the archipelago of Bermuda and Argus and Challenger Banks, and Bowditch Seamount, and other seamounts intervening roughly between Bermuda and Nashville Seamount).[4]
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African Plate. The NewEngland hotspot in the Atlantic Ocean has probably created a short line of mid- to late-Tertiary age seamounts on the African Plate...
a more complex manner than the Newfoundland and NewEnglandseamounts. Basalts of the Fogo Seamounts chemically range from slightly alkalic to slightly...
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the Bowditch Seamount and a scattering of other seamounts, including Nashville Seamount at the eastern end of the NewEnglandSeamounts, together forming...
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White Mountains, the NewEnglandSeamounts, and the Seewarte Seamounts, which are the newest volcanoes produced by the NewEngland Hotspot. http://earthref...
with guyots and other seamounts. Oceans portal Evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes Kodiak–Bowie Seamount chain NewEnglandSeamounts "guyot". Merriam-Webster...
of older seamounts to the northwest and younger seamounts to the southeast. The existence of flat-topped seamounts throughout the Fogo Seamount chain indicate...
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in Canada A Hundred-Million Year History of the Corner Rise and NewEnglandSeamounts. Retrieved 1 August 2007 "Montroyalite Mineral Data". webmineral...
Norway south to the NewEnglandSeamounts and North Africa. It is found on continental shelves and in the vicinity of seamounts and knolls. The roundnose...
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of older seamounts to the northwest and younger seamounts to the southeast. The existence of flat-topped seamounts throughout the Fogo Seamount chain indicate...
; Southworth, M.; Watkins, E. (2003). "Biodiversity of Bear Seamount, NewEnglandseamount chain: Results of exploratory trawling" (PDF). Journal of Northwest...
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