Physiography of the Ampère Seamount in the Horseshoe Seamount chain off Gibraltar

• Main Author: Hatzky, Jörn
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2005
• Subjects: HydroSweep; ANT-IX/4; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Antarctic; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Mont Blanc; The Antarctic; Antarc*; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.341125; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.341125

The Ampère Seamount, 600 km west of Gibraltar, is one of nine inactive volcanoes along a bent chain, the so called Horseshoe Seamounts. All of them ascend from an abyssal plain of 4000 to 4800 m depth up to a few hundred meters below the sea surface, except two, which nearly reach the surface: the A...