seamount: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	submarine volcanic cone

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Diagram showing the transition from land to deep ocean, with labeled features including coastal plain, shoreline, continental shelf, continental slope, submarine canyon, seamounts, continental rise, and abyssal plain, illustrating the structure of the continental margin.

Cross-sectional diagram showing three tectonic plates at ocean ridges, transform faults, and a subduction zone. The image illustrates rising magma forming rift and subduction volcanoes, convection currents in the mantle, and features such as ocean trenches, extinct and hot-spot volcanoes, and the movement of plates above a molten core and low-velocity mantle layer.

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