Mantle dynamics drive the formation of ocean islands and seamounts in the interior of oceanic plates. Yet the mechanisms for generating these volcanic edifices differ from chain to chain ...

The study – led by the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government – examined three seamounts off Ascension ... the first link in ocean food chains). Such quantities of ...

The study -- led by the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government -- examined three seamounts off Ascension ... the first link in ocean food chains). Such quantities of ...

Its cluster of peaks, rarely seen up close before, rises from the bottom of the Pacific near Cocos Island ... drag nets weighted with heavy chains across seamounts to catch schools of fish ...

A seamount around 900 miles from Chile's coast was discovered in the Nazca Ridge, an underwater mountain chain, stated a press ... also known as Easter Island, in their three expeditions to ...