| Britannia Guyots | |
|---|---|
  Location of the Britannia Guyots
| |
| Summit depth | 421 metres (1,381 ft) |
| Location | |
| Location | To the east of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| Group | Tasmantid Seamount Chain |
| Coordinates | 28°17′00″S 155°38′25″E / 28.28333°S 155.64028°E / -28.28333; 155.64028 |
| Geology | |
| Type | Guyot |
| History | |
| Discovery date | Named from the British cable ship "Britannia" |
The Britannia Guyots (also known as Britannia Bank, Britannia Tablemount, Britannia Tablemounts, Brittania Guyots or Brittania Tablemounts) are a line of extinct volcanic seamounts in the Tasmantid Seamount Chain.
They are basaltic volcanoes that erupted between 17,600,000 and 20,800,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates they rise about 4,000 m (13,000 ft) above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of 421 m (1,381 ft). The sediments deposited on top of the alkali olivine basalt originate from the early Middle Miocene when the ocean water was tropical to subtropical. They were described as seamounts in 1961.
The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an Australian marine park.
References
- ^ "GEBCO Undersea Feature Names Gazetteer".
- ^ Eggins, S. M.; Green, David Headley; Falloon, Trevor J. (1991). "The Tasmantid seamounts: Shallow melting and contamination of an EM1 mantle plume". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 107 (3–4): 448–462. Bibcode:1991E&PSL.107..448E. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(91)90092-V.
- Quilty, Patrick G. (1993). "Tasmantid and Lord Howe seamounts: biostratigraphy and palaeoceanographic significance". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 17 (1): 27–53. Bibcode:1993Alch...17...27Q. doi:10.1080/03115519308619487.
- Standard, J. C. (1961). "Submarine Geology of the Tasman Sea". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 72 (12): 1777–1788. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1961)72[1777:SGOTTS]2.0.CO;2.
- "Temperate East Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018" (PDF). Parks Australia. Retrieved August 16, 2018.