Peirce Seamount, also called Pierce Seamount, is a
seamount
A seamount is a large geologic landform that rises from the ocean floor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock. Seamounts are typically formed from extinct volcanoes that rise abru ...
located in the
Pacific Ocean west of the
Queen Charlotte Islands,
British Columbia,
Canada. It lies between
Denson Seamount
Denson Seamount is a submarine volcano in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, with an estimated age of 18 million years. It lies at the southern end of the chain near the Canada–United States border. It was one of the underground volcanic extru ...
and
Hodgkins Seamount
Hodgkins Seamount is a seamount in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, located south of Pierce Seamount and north of Bowie Seamount. It has apparently experienced two generically different episodes of volcanism, separated by about 12 million years. ...
and is member of the
Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, a chain of seamounts in southeastern
Gulf of Alaska stretching from the
Aleutian Trench in the north to
Bowie Seamount
Bowie Seamount is a large submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, located west of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada.
The seamount is also known as Bowie Bank. In the Russian language, Bowie is called Гора Бауи (Gora Ba ...
in the south.
See also
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List of volcanoes in Canada
List of volcanoes in Canada is an incomplete list of volcanoes found in Mainland Canada, in the Canadian islands and in Canadian waters. All but one province, Prince Edward Island, have at least one volcano.
Alberta
British Columbia
Ne ...
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Volcanism of Canada
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Volcanism of Western Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, greenstone belts, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common volcanic ...
References
British Columbia Marine Topographyupdated 1 April 2014.
External links
Seamount Catalog -- Peirce Seamount
Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean
Volcanoes of British Columbia
Seamounts of Canada
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