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Anton Dohrn Seamount

Coordinates: 57°30′N 11°00′W / 57.500°N 11.000°W / 57.500; -11.000
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The Anton Dohrn Seamount is a guyot in the Rockall Trough in the northeast Atlantic. It was named after the German fishery research vessel which discovered it which, in turn, had been named after the 19th-century biologist Anton Dohrn.

The feature rises from approximately 2,100 metres to 600 metres below sea level and has a sedimentary layer approximately 100 metres thick. It arose through episodic volcanic activity between 70 and 40 million years ago.[1]

Around the base of the seamount is a slight "moat" where the sea-bottom is at a lower depth than the surrounding terrain.

References

  1. ^ O'Connor, Stofferes, Wijbrans, Shannon and Morrissey (2000). Evidence from episodic seamount volcanism for pulsing of the Iceland plume in the past 70 Myr, Nature 408, 954-958.
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