Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

In this work, we analyze the potential controls for Co concentrations in Fe-Mn crusts from the Magellan seamounts, and propose an equation that unites all the factors. Figure 1. Left map, location of ...

Using satellite altimetry data from SWOT, scientists have created a global map of marine gravity, uncovering thousands of new seamounts. (Eötvös is a unit that measures the ocean’s vertical gravity ...

What might have lived in the sediment before heavy trawl lines flattened seamounts and pulled out any creature big enough to get jammed in the net? With trawling nets able to shift even big ...

Around 14,500 of Earth’s seamounts—ancient mountains that have formed on the ocean floor—have been mapped out so far. But these are assumed to make up less than 1% of the actual number.

The team focused on three types of underwater features: abyssal hills, small seamounts and continental margins. Abyssal hills — parallel ridges that are just hundreds of feet tall — are formed by the ...