Moai (seamount)
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Second-most westerly submarine volcano in the Easter Seamount Chain
This article is about the submarine volcano. For other uses, see Moai (disambiguation).
| Moai | |
|---|---|
| Map | |
| Height | >2,500 metres |
| Location | |
| Location | Pacific Ocean, west of Easter Island |
| Coordinates | 27°06′S 109°51′W / 27.1°S 109.85°W / -27.1; -109.85 [1] |
| Geology | |
| Type | Submarine volcano |
| Volcanic arc/chain | Sala y Gómez ridge |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Last eruption | >100,000 BCE |
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.
The Moai seamount was named after the moai statues of neighbouring Easter Island.
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Geographic.org
- ^ 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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