Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot ... how sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's been imported into the GEBCO ...

Of all Earth’s seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred. More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

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

“The seamounts of the Southeastern Pacific host ... This was the institute’s third expedition of the year to that region of ...

Thanks to a dense array of sensors on the volcano’s summit and flanks, scientists know that Axial Seamount has been swelling with magma and getting taller, a sign that it’s ready to go off.

A 3D map of Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. Scientists predict that it will erupt in 2025. Oregon State University The ocean floor hosts a staggering number of volcanoes.

After the 2015 eruption, Axial’s sea floor ... into the ocean and captures images and lava flow samples for the team back on ...

Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just under a mile beneath the ocean waves.

Axial Seamount is a large, young volcano located at the bottom ... causing thousands of underwater earthquakes to be detected and for the surrounding ocean floor to sink about 2 metres. SEE ALSO: Rare ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

Extrapolated across all the oceans, there may be over a million submarine volcanoes worldwide, with approximately 75,000 of them rising more than half a mile above the ocean floor. Submarine volcanoes ...