Tuscaloosa Seamount

Tuscaloosa Seamount
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height	2765 m below sea level
location	Pacific
Coordinates	22 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 157 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 22 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 157 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W
rock	Hyaloclastite

The Tuscaloosa Seamount is an undersea mountain in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is located about 100 km northeast of the island of Oahu .

Unlike the vast majority of deep-sea mountains , the Tuscaloosa Seamount is not a submarine volcano . Rather, it is a giant block of rock that broke off about two million years ago in the Nuuanu Giant Submarine Landslide of Oahu when the Koolau volcano collapsed.

The Tuscaloosa Seamount is 30 km long and 17 km wide. Its flat summit rises 1.8 km above the sea floor, but is 2765 m below sea level.

Individual evidence

↑ Barbara H. Keating, William J. McGuire: Instability and Structural Failure at Volcanic Ocean Islands and the Climate Change Dimension . In: Advances in Geophysics 47, 2004, pp. 176-272 (English), doi : 10.1016 / S0065-2687 (04) 47004-6
↑ Kasey White: Scientists Find Evidence of Cataclysmic Volcanic Event on Oahu , Ocean Drilling Program, Texas, A&M University, 2002, accessed October 24, 2012
↑ JG Moore, DA Clague, RT Holcomb, PW Lipman, WR Normark, ME Torresan: Prodigious Submarine Landslides on the Hawaiian Ridge (PDF; 2.3 MB). In: Jornal of Geophysical Research 94 (B12), 1989, pp. 17465–17484 (English)
↑ Stephen A. Langford, Richard C. Brill: Giant Submarine Landslides on the Hawaiian Ridge: A Rebuttal (PDF; 9.1 MB). In: Pacific Science 26, 1972, pp. 254-258 (English)

[1] Barbara H. Keating, William J. McGuire: Instability and Structural Failure at Volcanic Ocean Islands and the Climate Change Dimension . In: Advances in Geophysics 47, 2004, pp. 176-272 (English), doi : 10.1016 / S0065-2687 (04) 47004-6

[2] Kasey White: Scientists Find Evidence of Cataclysmic Volcanic Event on Oahu , Ocean Drilling Program, Texas, A&M University, 2002, accessed October 24, 2012

[3] JG Moore, DA Clague, RT Holcomb, PW Lipman, WR Normark, ME Torresan: Prodigious Submarine Landslides on the Hawaiian Ridge (PDF; 2.3 MB). In: Jornal of Geophysical Research 94 (B12), 1989, pp. 17465–17484 (English)

[4] Stephen A. Langford, Richard C. Brill: Giant Submarine Landslides on the Hawaiian Ridge: A Rebuttal (PDF; 9.1 MB). In: Pacific Science 26, 1972, pp. 254-258 (English)