Seamounts
The New England Seamounts are a chain of extinct volcanoes extending more than 1000 km from the southern edge of Georges Bank eastward into the Atlantic. Bear Seamount is the westernmost and oldest of the chain; it was most recently active approximately 100 million years ago.
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For more about Bear and the New England Seamount chain, see Deep Water Biodiversity.
For an expanded story on Bear Seamount, go to NOAA Ocean Explorer.
For seamount research on a global scale, visit CenSeam: a Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts.
Bathymetry Maps
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New England Seamounts
Credit: Bathymetry data from –
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, 2006. 2-minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2v2) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/06mgg01.html
Image created by CoML GoMA
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Western New England Seamounts
Credit: Bathymetry data from –
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, 2006. 2-minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2v2) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/06mgg01.html
Image created by CoML GoMA
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The Continental Slope South of Georges Bank
Credit: Bathymetry data from –
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, 2006. 2-minute Gridded Global Relief Data (ETOPO2v2) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/06mgg01.html
USGS Digital bathymetry of the Gulf of Maine, constructed by Ed Roworth and Rich Signell, gom15dd. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-801/bathy/index.htm.
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Vertical Profiles
Click on one of the transects at below for a vertical profile of the underlying bathymetry
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