The Moai Seamount is a submarine volcano, the second most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. It is east of Pukao seamount and west of Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.[2] The Moai seamount is fairly young, having developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.
| Moai | |
|---|---|
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| Height | >2,500 metres |
| Location | |
| Location | Pacific Ocean, west of Easter Island |
| Coordinates | 27°06′S 109°51′W / 27.1°S 109.85°W[1] |
| Geology | |
| Type | Submarine volcano |
| Volcanic arc/chain | Sala y Gómez ridge |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Last eruption | >100,000 BCE |
The Moai seamount was named after the moai statues of neighbouring Easter Island.
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- ^ Geographic.org
- ^ Haase, Karsten M.; Peter Stoffers; 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 (6): 785–813. doi:10.1093/petrology/38.6.785.
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