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During our time here, we have observed the animals that live on the summit of this seamount and the pelagic, or marine, invertebrates that occupy the water column around it. Our sub surfaces after ...
Pāpaku Seamount lies east of New Zealand’s North Island, on the Hikurangi subduction zone. In 2018 scientists at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics led the first ever 3D seismic ...
The seamount was created by the subduction of the Pacific Plate underneath the Australian Plate, a process that generates magma and leads to eruptions. On January 15, 2022, the volcano erupted ...