Hodgkins Seamount
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Hodgkins Seamount is a seamount
in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain
, located south of Pierce Seamount and north of Bowie Seamount
. Hodgkins Seamount has apparently experienced two generically different episodes of volcanism, separated by about 12 million years ago. Like the rest of the Kodiak-Bowie seamounts, it was formed by the Bowie hotspot
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Seamount
A seamount is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface , and thus is not an island. These are typically formed from extinct volcanoes, that rise abruptly and are usually found rising from a seafloor of depth. They are defined by oceanographers as...
in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain
Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain
The Kodiak–Bowie Seamount chain, also called the Pratt–Welker Seamount chain, is a seamount chain in southeastern Gulf of Alaska stretching from the Aleutian Trench in the north to Bowie Seamount, the youngest volcano in the chain, which lies west of the Queen Charlotte Islands,...
, located south of Pierce Seamount and north of Bowie Seamount
Bowie Seamount
Bowie Seamount is a large submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, located west of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada.The seamount is named after William Bowie of the Coast & Geodetic Survey....
. Hodgkins Seamount has apparently experienced two generically different episodes of volcanism, separated by about 12 million years ago. Like the rest of the Kodiak-Bowie seamounts, it was formed by the Bowie hotspot
Bowie hotspot
The Bowie hotspot is a volcanic hotspot, located west of the Queen Charlotte Islands in the Pacific Ocean.Almost all magma created by the hotspot has the composition of basalt, and so the volcanoes are constructed almost entirely of this igneous rock...
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See also
- Volcanism of Canada
- Volcanism of Western CanadaVolcanism of Western CanadaVolcanism of Western Canada produces lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common volcanic forms such as tuyas and subglacial mounds.-Volcanic belts:*Anahim...
- List of volcanoes in Canada