Bathymetry Modeler

To:  Continental Margins | Deep Ocean Basins Deep Ocean Basins: Seamounts and Guyots Oceanic Ridges | Abyssal Hills/Plains | Trenches/Island Chains Seamounts are isolated volcanic mountains scattered across the ocean floor. Most common in the Pacific Ocean, seamounts generally rise more than 1,000 meters above the sea floor, often forming islands. When the action of plate tectonics moves a seamount-formed island away from the mid-ocean ridge, the ocean crust sinks, pulling the island beneath the surface. These submerged, often flat-topped, seamounts are called guyots. Click on an image below to investigate that area. Emperor Seamounts Marshall Seamounts Hawaiian Islands Last modified: 26-August-99 Copyright Notice