submarine volcano

These structures occur in various forms, but many are cone-shaped seamounts. Some ancient island volcanoes were eroded flat or covered with a coral cap at sea level before they sank below the sea surface as they and the crust supporting them cooled and…

…containing a significant proportion of submarine volcanic rocks, and for this reason it is generally accepted that such deposits formed as a result of submarine volcanism. Such a conclusion is supported by two simple observations: first, that many volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, such as those in New Brunswick, Canada, are…

…carrying dissolved salts from the magmatic material within the crust. It may lose much of its dissolved load to precipitates on the seafloor and gradually blend in with the surrounding seawater, sharing its remaining dissolved substances.