Posted on 10/09/2018 8:58:39 AM PDT by ETL
Scientists have discovered a stunning volcanic ‘lost world’ off the coast of Tasmania.
Experts on the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), vessel ‘Investigator’ made the find while mapping the seafloor 249 miles east of Tasmania. The project is led by scientists from the Australian National University. CSIRO is Australia’s national science agency.
A chain of ‘seamounts’, or undersea mountains, were spotted in deep water, offering the first glimpse of a spectacular “underwater world.”
Scientists say that the mountains rise up to 9,843 feet from the seafloor, but the highest peaks are still 6,562 feet beneath the waves.
“Our multibeam mapping has revealed in vibrant detail, for the first time, a chain of volcanic seamounts rising up from an abyssal plain about 5000m [16,404 feet] deep,” said Dr. Tara Martin, from the CSIRO mapping team, in a statement. "The seamounts vary in size and shape, with some having sharp peaks while others have wide flat plateaus, dotted with small conical hills that would have been formed by ancient volcanic activity.”
The area is also teeming with marine life. “While we were over the chain of seamounts, the ship was visited by large numbers of humpback and long-finned pilot whales,” said Dr. Eric Woehler from BirdLife Tasmania, who was onboard the research vessel to study seabirds and marine life. “We estimated that at least 28 individual humpback whales visited us on one day, followed by a pod of 60-80 long-finned pilot whales the next. We also saw large numbers of seabirds in the area including four species of albatross and four species of petrel.”
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http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/land_time_forgot.htm
No Doug McClure please.
I don’t know why, all of Dave Lister’s favorite movies had absolutely no Doug McClure.
Maybe they will find Hillary’s emails there.
The ORIGINAL...............
A map of a seamount in the Arctic Ocean created by NOAA's Office of Coast Survey by gathering data with a multibeam echo sounder.
Seamounts - undersea mountains formed by volcanic activity - were once thought to be little more than hazards to submarine navigation. Today, scientists recognize these structures as biological hotspots that support a dazzling array of marine life.
The biological richness of seamount habitats results from the shape of these undersea mountains. Thanks to the steep slopes of seamounts, nutrients are carried upwards from the depths of the oceans toward the sunlit surface, providing food for creatures ranging from corals to fish to crustaceans.
New estimates suggest that, taken together, seamounts encompass about 28.8 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface. That’s larger than deserts, tundra, or any other single land-based global habitat on the planet.
I read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s [Sherlock Holmes author]’Lost World’ a couple of years ago, and it is much, much better than any of the movies that have been made from it.................
Sounds like it would be really good.
1963. Watercolor by Frank Frazetta.
.....and just like his Sherlock Holmes stories, which I have read a lot, it has a surprise ending!....................
How can it be considered “lost” if we never knew it was there to begin with?
More Filthy Heathen Liberal Bullsh*t.
Don’t confuse actual science with GoreBull Warming “science”.
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