Moai_(seamount)

Moai (seamount)

Moai (seamount)

Second-most westerly submarine volcano in the Easter Seamount Chain

This article is about the submarine volcano. For other uses, see Moai (disambiguation).

The Moai Seamount is a submarine volcano, the second most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. It is east of Pukao seamount and west of Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.[2] The Moai seamount is fairly young, having developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.

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The Moai seamount was named after the moai statues of neighbouring Easter Island.

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References

  1. [1]
    Geographic.org
  2. [2]
    Haase, Karsten M.; Peter Stoffers; C. Dieter Garbe-Schönberg (October 1997). "The Petrogenetic Evolution of Lavas from Easter Island and Neighbouring Seamounts, Near-ridge Hotspot Volcanoes in the SE Pacific". Journal of Petrology. 38 (6): 785–813. doi:10.1093/petrology/38.6.785.


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