The South Kermadec Ridge Seamounts are a continuation of the volcanic island arc,[1] formed at the convergent boundary where the Pacific Plate subducts under the Indo-Australian Plate. The subducting Pacific Plate created the Kermadec Trench,[2] the second deepest submarine trench,[3] to the east of the islands. The seamounts lie along the western aspect of the undersea Kermadec Ridge, which runs southwest from the Kermadec Islands towards the North Island of New Zealand and northeast towards Tonga (Kermadec-Tonga Arc).
This area of the Kermadec Arc - Havre Trough is a relatively young oceanic arc-back-arc system as it became active in the Quaternary.[4] The seamounts include:[5][4][6][7]
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Situated in the middle of a deep basin (3000m deep) in the Havre Trough, to the west of Kibblewhite and actually closer to the Lau-Colville Ridge than the Kermadec Ridge[4]
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^Ballance, Peter F.; Ablaev, Albert G.; Pushchin, Igor K; Pletnev, Sergei P.; Birylina, Maria G.; Itaya, Tetsumaru; Follas, Harry A.; Gibson, Graham W. (1999). "Morphology and history of the Kermadec trench–arc–backarc basin–remnant arc system at 30 to 328S: geophysical profile, microfossil and K–Ar data" (PDF). Marine Geology. 159 (1–4): 35–62. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00206-0. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
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^ abJohn H. Latter, Edwards F. Lloyd, Ian E.M. Smith, and Simon Nathan. () New Zealand's volcanoes: Kermadec Islands Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine. Volcanic Hazards Working Group, Civil Defence Scientific Advisory Committee.
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