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Axial Seamount (also Coaxial Seamount or Axial Volcano) is a seamount, submarine volcano, and underwater shield volcano [3] in the Pacific Ocean, located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, approximately 480 km (298 mi) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Researchers at Oregon State University suggested the Axial Seamount had an eruption interval of approximately 16 years, which would place the next major Axial eruption in 2014. [12] In 2011, during a dive on the seamount, new lava flows were discovered and some instruments had been buried in lava flows, indicating the volcano had erupted since ...
1. Axial Seamount (46° 03′ 36″ N, 130° 00′ 0″ W). The most recent seamount. Axial Seamount is the youngest seamount in the Cobb Eickelberg Seamount chain. Since this is the most active of all the Cobb-Eickelberg Seamounts, it is studied the most: to help understand the dynamics of seamounts, volcanic activity, earthquakes, biodiversity, geology and chemistry.
Genral map showing location of all major seamounts of the world. Map showing the locations of Bear, ... Juan de Fuca Ridge map showing the location of Axial Seamount.
The Cobb hotspot is a marine volcanic hotspot at (46˚ N, 130˚ W), [1] which is 460 km (290 mi) west of Oregon and Washington, North America, in the Pacific Ocean. Over geologic time, the Earth's surface has migrated with respect to the hotspot through plate tectonics, creating the Cobb–Eickelberg Seamount chain.
Neither Oregon nor Washington is sufficiently prepared. To map the subduction zone, researchers at sea performed active source seismic imaging, a technique that sends sound to the ocean floor and ...
Map of world's major seamounts.. A list of active and extinct submarine volcanoes and seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. [1]
The roughly 3,672-square-kilometer (1,418-square-mile) chunk of ice — slightly bigger than Rhode Island and more than twice the size of the city of London — drifted over a seamount and got ...