How Do Convection Currents Help Form Underwater Mountains - Extinct volcanoes like the pao pao seamount (right) in the south pacific ocean may help deep waters rise, a function critical to ocean conveyor belts. Seafloor topography plays outsize role in circulation sequestering carbon and heat. Flexi explains the process with a simple diagram and examples. Tectonic plates break apart and diverge where the mantle beneath is upwelling. Web this process forms ocean basins, shifts continents, and pushes up mountains. Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to earth's climate.
Undersea mountains stir up currents critical to earth's climate. Flexi explains the process with a simple diagram and examples. Extinct volcanoes like the pao pao seamount (right) in the south pacific ocean may help deep waters rise, a function critical to ocean conveyor belts. Tectonic plates break apart and diverge where the mantle beneath is upwelling. Seafloor topography plays outsize role in circulation sequestering carbon and heat. Web this process forms ocean basins, shifts continents, and pushes up mountains.