Publication Date:
2023-08-28
Description:
An elongate ENE-trending seamount in the New Caledonia Basin is interpreted as the product of basaltic fissure eruption. The age is unknown, but Pleistocene-Recent shallow water echinoids have been dredged from the summit, which is 550 fathoms below sea level.
Keywords:
Aotea Seamount, Southwest Pacific Ocean; Comment; Deposit type; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Description; Dredge; DRG; File name; Identification; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sediment type; Substrate type; Tui; TUI_1958; TUI_1958_B95; Uniform resource locator/link to image; Visual description
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 10 data points
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