Eratosthenes deep sea mountain
| Eratosthenes deep sea mountain | ||
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 Geographical forms of the sea south of Cyprus |
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| height | 690 m below sea level | |
| location | south of the island of Cyprus | |
| Coordinates | 33 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ N , 32 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Deep sea mountain | |
The Eratosthenes deep sea mountain is a deep sea mountain in the eastern Mediterranean about 100 km south of western Cyprus . It is a large, submarine massif with an extension of approx. 120 km by 80 km. It should be the fragment of a continental plate . Its summit is at a depth of 690 m. The mountain rises 2000 m above the surrounding seabed, which lies at a depth of 2700 m and belongs to the Eratosthenes deep sea level . The mountain is one of the largest forms of terrain in the eastern Mediterranean. He is included in the program of the Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam).
literature
- Yossi Mart, Alastair HF Robertson: Eratosthenes Seamount: an oceanographic yardstick recording the Late Mesozoic-Tertiary geological history of the Eastern Mediterranean. In: AHF Robertson, K.-C. Emeis, C. Richter, A. Camerlenghi (Eds.): Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results , Volume 160, 1998, Chapter 52, pp. 701-708.
- Ditza Kempler: Eratosthenes Seamount: the possible spearhead of incipient continental collision in the Eastern Mediterranean. In: AHF Robertson, K.-C. Emeis, C. Richter, A. Camerlenghi (Eds.): Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results , Volume 160, 1998, Chapter 53, pp. 709-721.