Pukao (Seamount)
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Pukao Seamount
Summit depth Below Sea level
Height 2500+ m
Location west of Easter Island
Type Submarine volcano
Age of rock Pleistocene
Last eruption >100,000 BCE

The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.[1] The Pukao Seamount is fairly young, and believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.

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References

  1. ^ HAASE, STOFFERS & GARBE-SCHÖNBERG
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