Discovering mammoth undersea mountains
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 10:00
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest evidence of the vastness remaining to be explored in the worlds oceans, scientists aboard Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diegos research vessel Melville are mapping a series of colossal and previously uncharted undersea mountains in remote areas of the South Atlantic Ocean.