Seewarte Seamounts Explained

Seewarte Seamounts
Map:	Seewarte3d.svg
Map Size:	300px
Location:	North Atlantic Ocean

The Seewarte Seamounts, also known as the Seewarte Seamount Chain, Atlantis-Great Meteor Seamount Chain and the Atlantis-Plato-Cruiser-Great Meteor Seamount Group,^[1] is a north-south trending group of extinct submarine volcanoes in the northern Atlantic Ocean south-southeast of the Corner Rise Seamounts.

The Seewarte Seamounts have been interpreted to have formed as a result of the African Plate traveling over the New England hotspot.^[2]

Seamounts

The Seewarte Seamounts include:

• Closs Seamount
• Little Meteor Seamount
• Great Meteor Seamount
• Hyères Seamount
• Irving Seamount
• Cruiser Tablemount
• Plato Seamount
• Atlantis Seamount
• Tyro Seamount

See also

• Corner Rise Seamounts
• New England Seamounts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marine Gazetteer Placedetails. 2020-02-16.
2. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03mountains/background/geology/geology.html Geological Origin of the New England Seamount Chain