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Darwin Guyot

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but the more likely explanation is that the rim was formed by living organisms. The whole summit plateau covers an area of 5 by 8 kilometres (3.1 mi × 5.0 mi) and the total volume of the seamount is about 2,287 cubic kilometres (549 cu mi).
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It lies at a depth of 1,285 metres (4,216 ft)-1,266 metres (4,154 ft) and has an elongated, northwest-southeast trending shape; an older survey had indicated a more rounded shape. The summit features an elevated rim which is probably a former
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on Darwin Guyot eventually ceased growing; one possibility is that sea levels rose quickly enough to overwhelm the ability of the reef forming organisms to keep up. Unlike other guyots, Darwin Guyot did not accumulate a substantial cap of
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after drowning; perhaps it is too small to accumulate a substantial sediment layer or sedimentation took place but ocean currents swept the sediment off the platform. Presently, fish such as
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as well as living animals were pulled up. The seafloor underneath the guyot lies at a depth of 5,250 metres (17,220 ft) and has an age of 157 million years.
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Ladd, H.S.; Newman, W.A.; Sohl, N.F. (1974). Cameron, A.M.; Cambell, B.M.; Cribb, A.B.; Endean, R.; Jell, J.S.; Jones, O.A.; Mather, P.; Talbot, F.H. (eds.).
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Rougerie, Francis; Fagerstrom, J.A. (December 1994). "Cretaceous history of Pacific Basin guyot reefs: a reappraisal based on geothermal endo-upwelling".
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became established. They formed the rim as well as the irregular mounds on the summit plateau. Darwin Guyot is considered to be the oldest known atoll.
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Scoffin, T. P.; Dixon, J. E. (August 1983). "The distribution and structure of coral reefs: one hundred years since Darwin".
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age have also been found. Rudists formed organic frameworks resembling coral reefs on Darwin Guyot and elsewhere in
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origin; its age exceeds 118 million years and its history might go back to the Cretaceous subdivision "
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surrounding an internal lagoon like a bucket; this resembles the structure of present-day
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lie to its east-southeast. These underwater mountains as well as abovewater
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that was then levelled by erosion. On the resulting platform
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drowned about 100 million years ago, or at the time of the
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Montaggioni, Lucien F.; Braithwaite, Colin J. R. (2009).
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in the Pacific Ocean that was discovered to have this
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(1 January 2008). 938:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1983.tb01587.x 413:Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event 211:; previously in the same year the 14: 1152:van Waasbergen, R.J. (May 1995), 396:eras. Other environments such as 192:shortly thereafter; it refers to 1193: 1170:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.143.242.1995 254:. 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Coordinates
22°03′36″N 171°38′06″E / 22.0600°N 171.6350°E / 22.0600; 171.6350
Type
Guyot
Darwin Guyot is located in Pacific Ocean
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guyot
Mid-Pacific Mountains
Marshall Islands
Hawaii
Charles Darwin
Cretaceous
atoll
rudist
reefs
sea level rise
Board on Geographic Names
Charles Darwin
guyots
atoll
R/V Alexander Agassiz
R/V Argo
Hawaii
Marshall Islands
Mid-Pacific Mountains
Agassiz Guyot
Allison Guyot
atolls
Western Pacific Ocean
hotspot

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