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Tasmantid Seamount Chain
The Tasmantid Seamount Chain is a long chain of seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean. The chain consists of over 16 extinct volcanic peaks, many rising more than from the seabed. 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. Like its neighbour, the Tasmantid Seamount Chain has resulted from the Indo-Australian Plate moving northward over a stationary hotspot. It ranges in age from 40 to 6 million years old. Alternative names for the Tasmantid Seamount Chain include the Tasmantid Seamounts, Tasman Seamounts, Tasman Seamount Chain, Tasmantide Volcanoes or simply the Tasmantids. Features The Tasmantid Seamount Chain includes the following: * Barcoo Bank * Brisbane Guyot * Britannia Guyots *Cato Reef * Derwent Hunter Guyot * Fraser Seamount * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian Seamounts
The Tasmanian Seamounts (also ''Tasman Seamounts'' and ''Tasmania Seamounts'') are a group of seamounts ( underwater volcanoes) located off the southern tip of Tasmania. The seamounts were created more than 55 million years ago by the Tasman hotspot. The seamounts are ecologically important, and harbor a lush marine ecosystem, but are threatened by overfishing. For this reason, part of the Tasmanian Seamounts were incorporated into a marine reserve in 1999. Geology The Tasmanian Seamounts were created by the Tasman hotspot, a long mantle plume that is currently the active center of Mount Erebus in Antarctica. The seamounts, created roughly 55 million years ago, are between deep, across, and tall. Ecology The Tasmanian Seamounts are an important feature of the south Tasmanian marine environment. While oceans generally contain few nutrients, the presence of seamounts increases the flowing speed of the water current. This effect, created by the topography of the seafl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcoo Bank
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Wreck Reefs
The Wreck Reefs are located in the southern part of the Coral Sea Islands approximately east-north-east of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. Approximately east of the Swain Reefs complex they form a narrow chain of reefs with small cays that extends for around in a west to east line. Islets found on the reefs include Bird Islet, West Islet and Porpoise Cay. The reef gained its name through the sinking of and '' Cato'' which were lost on Wreck Reefs. In 1803 Matthew Flinders embarked at Port Jackson as a passenger aboard ''Porpoise'', which had been refitted to carry his collection of plants and papers. ''Cato'' and ''Bridgewater'' accompanied them. Eight days later (17 August) disaster stuck with ''Porpoise'' and ''Cato'' striking the uncharted reefs giving cause to the naming of the area. The area is protected as a historic wreck site. Geography The reef complex are approximately 100 km south east from Kenn Reefs, 150 km south east from the Saumarez Reef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taupo Bank
The Taupo Bank (also previously known as Mont Taupo,Taupo Guyot or Taupo Tablemount) is an extinct volcanic seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. It is a basaltic volcano that erupted between 10,300,000 to 11,400,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates it rises about above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of . The sediments deposited on top of the alkali olivine basalt originate from the Late Miocene. It was likely a coral-capped volcanic seamount during the Pleistocene low sea level. It was described as a seamount in 1961. The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an Australian marine park Australian marine parks (formerly Commonwealth marine reserves) are marine protected areas located within Australian waters and are managed by the Australian government. These waters generally extend from three nautical miles off the coast to the .... References {{reflist Seamounts of the Tasman Sea Guyots Hotspot volcanoes Polygenet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stradbroke Seamount
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Recorder Guyot
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Queensland Guyot
The Queensland Guyot is an extinct volcanic seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. It is a basaltic volcano that erupted about 20,900,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates it rises about above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of . It is just to the north of the Britannia Guyots and is connected to them by a ridge that rises about from the sea floor. It was described as a seamount in 1961. The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an Australian marine park Australian marine parks (formerly Commonwealth marine reserves) are marine protected areas located within Australian waters and are managed by the Australian government. These waters generally extend from three nautical miles off the coast to the .... References {{reflist Seamounts of the Tasman Sea Guyots Hotspot volcanoes Polygenetic volcanoes Miocene volcanoes Volcanoes of the Tasman Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreton Seamount
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Kenn Reef
Kenn Reef is a submerged coral atoll off the Pacific coast of Queensland, Australia. It is about 15 by 8 km and appears as either a backward facing "L" or a boot. The reef covers an area of approximately 40 km2, with an islet in the Southeast part of the reef called Observatory Cay which is approximately 2 m above the high tide level It is part of the Coral Sea Islands and is over 280 nm north-east from Gladstone, Queensland. Kenn Reef is located on part of a submerged continental block, called the Kenn Plateau. This block drifted from Australia around 64 to 52 million years ago. The atoll is believed to be volcanic in origin. The reef was discovered by Mr. Alexander Kenn, Master of the ship ''William Shand'', on her passage from Sydney to Batavia, General Kenn Reef is a remotely situated reef in the south eastern waters of the Coral Sea, it lies approximately 100 km northeast from Bird Islet part of the Wreck Reefs and 140 km southeast from the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gascoyne Seamount
Gascoyne Seamount, also called Gascoyne Guyot or Gascoyne Tablemount, is a guyot in the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean. Geography Located east of the Australian coastal town of Bermagui, Gascoyne Seamount is the southernmost and youngest significant seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. This is an underwater mountain range extending some to the north. The Tasmantid Seamount Chain has resulted from the Indo-Australian Plate moving northward over a stationary hotspot. Geology The seamount is about 7 million years old. It incorporates a tropical to subtropical, very shallow water calcareous algal/encrusting foraminiferid biota, suggesting deposition in water deep. Age diagnostic forms have not been recovered. Gascoyne Seamount is named after HMAS ''Gascoyne'', one of two ships in the Royal Australian Navy assigned to Australian programs in the International Indian Ocean Expedition The International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) was a large-scale multinational hydr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraser Seamount
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Derwent Hunter Guyot
The Derwent Hunter Guyot is an extinct volcanic seamount of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. It is a basaltic volcano that erupted between 12,400,000 and 15,400,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates it rises about above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of . The sediments deposited on top of the alkali olivine basalt originate from the early Middle Miocene. The Derwent Hunter Guyot appears to be double peaked. It was discovered in 1958 and described as a seamount in 1961. The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an Australian marine park Australian marine parks (formerly Commonwealth marine reserves) are marine protected areas located within Australian waters and are managed by the Australian government. These waters generally extend from three nautical miles off the coast to the .... References {{reflist Seamounts of the Tasman Sea Guyots Hotspot volcanoes Polygenetic volcanoes Miocene volcanoes Volcanoes of the Tasman S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
