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Seamount Located off the coast of Ecuador. (Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program) The ocean floor is a vast scope on our planet that remains largely unexplored. Although oceans cover 71% of Earth ...

Purple denotes regions that are lower compared to higher features such as seamounts and abyssal hills, depicted in green. Eötvös is the unit of measure for the gravity-based data used to create these ...

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