Anton Dohrn Seamount
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The Anton Dohrn Seamount is a guyot
in the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic. It was named after the ship which discovered it which, in turn, had been named after the 19-century biologist Anton Dohrn
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The feature rises from approximately 2,100 metres to 600 metres below sea level and has a sedimentary layer approximately 100 metres thick. It arose through episodic volcanic activity between 70 and 40 million years ago.
Around the base of the seamount is a slight "moat" where the sea-bottom is at a lower depth than the surrounding terrain.
Guyot
A guyot , also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain , with a flat top over 200 meters below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can exceed ....
in the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic. It was named after the ship which discovered it which, in turn, had been named after the 19-century biologist Anton Dohrn
Anton Dohrn
Felix Anton Dohrn was a prominent German Darwinist and the founder and first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy.-Family history:...
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The feature rises from approximately 2,100 metres to 600 metres below sea level and has a sedimentary layer approximately 100 metres thick. It arose through episodic volcanic activity between 70 and 40 million years ago.
Around the base of the seamount is a slight "moat" where the sea-bottom is at a lower depth than the surrounding terrain.