Taney Seamounts | |
Map: | Pacific_Ocean |
Volume: | 110NaN0 to 1870NaN0 in volume |
Part Type: | Peaks |
Part: | Five seamounts (underwater volcanoes) |
Coordinates: | 36.6882°N -125.3375°W [1] |
Age: | ~26 million years |
The Taney Seamounts are a range of five extinct underwater volcanoes located 300km (200miles) west of San Francisco on the Pacific Plate.[2] The seamounts were identified during the United States Geological Survey's scan of the Exclusive Economic Zone,[3] conducted in the 1980s with the GLORIA sidescan sonar.[4]