Anton Dohrn Seamount
| Anton Dohrn Seamount | ||
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 The Rockall trough with the Anton Dohrn Seamount |
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| height | 600 m below sea level | |
| location | Rockall Trough , Atlantic Ocean | |
| Coordinates | 57 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Guyot | |
| Last eruption | about 40 million years ago | |
The Anton Dohrn Seamount (also called Anton-Dohrn-Kuppe ) is a guyot (deep sea dome ) in the north of the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic west of the Hebrides . It was named after the German research ship Anton Dohrn that discovered it, which in turn was named after the zoologist Anton Dohrn . The Seamount is located about 150 km east of Rockall and in the exclusive economic zone of the United Kingdom .
The foot of the seamount is about 2,100 meters below sea level, the highest point about 600 meters. Its diameter is about 40 kilometers. The summit plateau of the Seamount is covered by a 100 meter thick layer of sedimentary deposits . Regular volcanic activity occurred 70 million to 40 million years ago.
The Anton Dohrn Seamount is surrounded by a small trench that is deeper than the surrounding area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ O'Connor, Stofferes, Wijbrans, Shannon and Morrissey (2000). Evidence from episodic seamount volcanism for pulsing of the Iceland plume in the past 70 Myr ( Memento from April 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Nature 408, 954-958.
Web links
- WWF report: Seamounts of the North-East Atlantic ( Memento from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- http://www.klima-bml.de/Reinsch_DWK_Anton Dohrn.pdf (link not available)