Gorringe Bank
The Gorringe Bank is a volcanic mountain with two peaks located about 200 kilometers southwest of Cabo de São Vicente in Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean below sea level. The Pico Gettysburg is at its peak about 20 meters below the water surface and is provided with a yellow light buoy as shoal marked. The Ormonde summit, connected to it by a 40-kilometer-long mountain ridge cut up to a depth of 500 meters, is a few meters below water and is not marked. The region, which can be directly assigned to the two mountains, has an area of around 9500 square kilometers and is very rugged. The north-west side drops by 5000 meters over a distance of 38 kilometers and the south-east side by 4000 meters over 31 kilometers. In the other directions, too, a water depth of over 3000 meters is quickly reached. Some experts consider the area to be the most earthquake- prone region in Europe . According to one theory, this is the epicenter of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. There is a strong gravitational anomaly in the area of the Gorringe Bank .
In 2013 scientists from Monash University in Melbourne , Australia announced that the processes in the Gorringe Bank were a subduction zone in which the Atlantic seabed was being swallowed up by the Eurasian plate .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Swallowed Ocean in Welt am Sonntag of June 30, 2013, p. 46
Coordinates: 36 ° 32 ′ N , 11 ° 34 ′ W