amounts
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This month, AFP reported from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel owned by billionaire-backed non-profit OceanX, as it studied seamounts off Indonesia.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
Other mineral deposits known as polymetallic sulfides collect around hydrothermal vents, fissures that discharge water from geothermal hot spots, while cobalt-rich crusts are found on underwater seamounts in shallower water.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2025
The new discoveries will increase the ecological importance of the Mallorca channel seamounts and the littoral caves, providing compelling arguments for the Spanish government to emphasize the need for protection measures.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
“We knew the seamounts here existed thanks to a previous mapping expedition,” said Cambronero.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2023
It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches, and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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