Newfoundland Seamounts

The Newfoundland Seamounts are a group of seamounts offshore of Eastern Canada in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Named for the island of Newfoundland, this group of seamounts formed during the Cretaceous period and are poorly studied.^[1]

Newfoundland Seamounts
Satellite image of the Newfoundland Seamounts
North Atlantic Ocean
Location
Location	North Atlantic Ocean
Country	Canada
Geology
Age of rock	Cretaceous
Last eruption	Cretaceous

The Newfoundland Seamounts appear to have formed as a result of the North American Plate passing over the Azores hotspot. Scruncheon Seamount in the middle of the chain has given an isotopic date of 97.7 ± 1.5 million years for the Newfoundland Seamounts. This indicates that the Newfoundland Seamounts were volcanically active in the earliest Cenomanian stage.^[2]

Seamounts

The Newfoundland Seamounts include:

• Dipper Seamount
• Screech Seamount
• Shredder Seamount
• Scruncheon Seamount
• Touton Seamount

See also

• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Eastern Canada
• List of volcanoes in Canada