Pukao (seamount)

Pukao Seamount
Summit depth Below Sea level
Height 2500+ m
Location
Location west of Easter Island
Geology
Type Submarine volcano
Age of rock Pleistocene
Last eruption >100,000 BCE

The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.[1] The Pukao Seamount is fairly young, and believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.

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References

  1. ^ Haase, Karsten M.; Peter Stoffers and C. Dieter Garbe-Schönberg (October 1997). "The Petrogenetic Evolution of Lavas from Easter Island and Neighbouring Seamounts, Near-ridge Hotspot Volcanoes in the SE Pacific". Journal of Petrology 38 (06): 785–813. doi:10.1093/petrology/38.6.785. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/petroj/online/Volume_38/Issue_06/html/ega038_gml.html. Retrieved 2010-03-16. 

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