| 词条 | Green Seamount |
| 释义 |
| name = Green Seamount | depth = {{convert|2100|ft|m|0|abbr=on}}[1] | height = {{convert|535|ft|m|0|abbr=on}}[1] | pushpin_map = Mexico | map_caption = | photo = | photo_alt = | photo_caption = | photo_size = | summit_area = {{convert|17|km3|cumi|0|abbr=on}}[1] | translation = | language = | pronunciation = | location = | group = | coordinates = {{coord|20|48.89|N|109|17.89|W|display=inline, title}} | country = Mexico[2] | type = Seamount (underwater volcano) | volcanic_group = | range = | age = up to 260,000 years old[5] | last_activity = | last_eruption = | discovered = | discovered_by = | first_visit = }}Green Seamount is a small seamount (an underwater volcano) off the western coast of Mexico. It and the nearby Red Seamount were visited in 1982 by an expedition using DSV Alvin, which observed the seamount's sedimentary composition, sulfur chimneys, and biology. Thus, Green Seamount is well-characterized for such a small feature.[6] GeologyGreen Seamount has a minimal sedimentary cover ({{convert|0|-|10|cm|in|abbr=on}} of unusually fine sands, with the exception of its more thickly covered caldera (where it was over {{convert|50|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} thick). Green Seamount is also home to a small number of hydrothermal vents near its caldera wall, which Alvin observed (on Red Seamount) to be oxide-rich with temperatures of {{convert|13.5|C|F|0|abbr=on}},[3] very low temperatures for a hydrothermal vent.[4] Non-hydrothermal sediments on the volcano were observed to be light, "cream-colored" carbonates thinly masked in a finer gray and green sediment.[3] The expedition also noted sulfur mounds near the caldera and pit crater walls;[3] these are unusual because, unlike most mid-ocean ridge seamounts, Green's "sulfur chimneys" contain a high amount of silicon, iron, copper, and quartz, but are poor in zinc. The complicated process that created the vents occurred between 140,000 and 70,000 years ago, and by looking at the sulfur chimneys scientists can estimate that it has taken about 260,000 years for the Green Seamount to reach its present height.[5] There is also an iron-manganese crust on a small off-axis seamount that adjoins Green Seamount,[2] a configuration common with sulfur-rich seamounts.[6] BiologyGreen Seamount is not very biologically diverse. The only fauna observed at its hydrothermal sites were single-celled, fan-shaped xenophyophores, and some shrimp. Still, marks of biological life were plentiful wherever sediments were {{convert|5|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} or more deep.[3] The xenophyophores in particular were of a type that was found on many of the seamounts in the eastern Pacific region.[7] Alvin took two samples, a sponge of the Hexactinellid family and barnacles of the Sessilia order, back to the surface for analysis.[8] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Green Seamount|url=http://earthref.org/databases/SC/|work=EarthRef|publisher=National Science Foundation|accessdate=29 June 2011}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|title=Green Seamount|url=http://www.interridge.org/irvents/content/green-seamount|work=InterRidge Vents Database|publisher=National Oceanography Centre, Southampton|accessdate=29 June 2011|date=April 10, 2010}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|title=Seamounts, Islands, and Atolls|year=1988|publisher=American Geophysical Union|isbn=978-0-87590-068-1|pages=193–195|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-NMJaicckMC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Bonanza+seamount#v=onepage&q&f=false|author=Barbara H. Keating|accessdate=29 June 2011|display-authors=etal}} 4. ^{{cite journal|author=Karsten M. Haase|title=Fluid compositions and mineralogy of precipitates from Mid Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vents at 4°48'S|year=2009|publisher=Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data (PANGAEA)|doi=10.1594/PANGAEA.727454|url=http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.727454|accessdate=29 June 2011|display-authors=etal}} 5. ^1 {{cite journal|title=Hydrothermal sulfide and oxide deposits on seamounts near 21°N, East Pacific Rise|journal=Geological Society of America Bulletin|date=1 January 1987|volume=98|issue=2|pages=157|doi=10.1130/0016-7606(1987)98<157:HSAODO>2.0.CO;2|url=http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/2/157|accessdate=29 June 2011|author=Jeffery C. Alt|issn=0016-7606|bibcode = 1987GSAB...98..157A |display-authors=etal}} 6. ^{{cite journal|title=Where are the Large Hydrothermal Sulphide Deposits in the Oceans?|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A|date=February 15, 1997|volume=355|issue=1723|pages=427–441|author=Y. Fouquet|doi=10.1098/rsta.1997.0015|display-authors=etal}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=The ecology of xenophyophores (Protista) on eastern Pacific seamounts|journal=Oceanographic Research Papers|date=1988|volume=35|issue=12|pages=2003–2027|doi=10.1016/0198-0149(88)90122-7|url=http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/bibliography.php?abstract=y&refId=253|accessdate=29 June 2011|author=Levin, L.A. and C.L. Thomas|bibcode = 1988DSRI...35.2003L }} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Observation Data|url=http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/observationData.php?smId=337|work=Seamounts Online|publisher=CenSeam|accessdate=29 June 2011}} 2 : Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean|Volcanoes of Mexico |
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