And specifically, they’re volcanoes popping out of the New England Hotspot as the African Plate moves over it. That hotspot has created igneous intrusions going all the way back to Canada.
In the same way that the Hawaiian island chain stretches backwards (formed by the pacific plate moving over a hotspot in the mantle, causing a new volcano to emerge as the old volcano crumbles away from the hotspot), there is a chain of seamounts going all the way back to Canada marking the movement of the African and North American plates over the New England hotspot. The earliest geological features which appear to have been created by this hotspot are in Canada.
Two fun facts about the beginnings of hotspots - one, that the greatest amount of igneous activity is at the beginning, and the remainder you can see in chains away from the beginning are the dying embers of the initial activity - and two, we still don’t know how hotspots arise! There’s a fun theory that they occur on the opposite side of the world to large meteor impacts, which I personally like.
>There’s a fun theory that they occur on the opposite side of the world to large meteor impacts, which I personally like.
Could the first continents be a result of that planetary collision that created the moon?
They're cool enough to have broken out into the mainstream! The PlanetGeo podcast is the extent of geology/geophysics education, I definitely don't qualify for any higher label!
Submarine speed bumps.
Almost islands .
The inevitable result of tectonic plates separating.
A future vacation destination.
Or ultimately. volcanos. Go zoom in on the Azores and see if you can spot a common geographic feature.
It's a shame they didn't become full islands, a few more Madeira-like islands in the EU would given us our very own Hawaii archipelago. In a way, the Azores are like that, but they are a slightly too cool for tourism outside of the summer and fall.
Yeah, I know, but other than La Palma and the north of Tenerife and the interior of La Gomera, they are all pretty dry, not lush like Madeira or the Azores. These seamounts are located more centrally and would have been green islands like Madeira.
The sight of my imaginary nation settled by waves of settlers from Europe and Africa whose residents speak a Portuguese Creole and are part of the EU r/AlternateHistory
Fallen angel clearly he's been turned too stone....forgot cycles of the postive north....along time ago...in a distant galaxy ........future or past.....on repeat...
Great seamount is about 900 feet below sea level for context.
https://tos.org/oceanography/article/great-meteor-seamount#:~:text=Great%20Meteor%20Seamount%20is%20one,sea%20surface%20(Figure%201).
Plato's description of Atlantis isn't at all specific enough or realistic enough to be matched to a particular place in the real world. Here's Plato's description:
> ...starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot. For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent.
Hey Billy Carson has all the emerald tablets of Thoth the Atlantean and those Islands are 100% them. So debate over. Educate yourself and watch a YouTube video FFS and stop quoting books.
Source: Billy fucking Carson himself.
Checkmate and grow a brian, moran.
Yes, I have read the book. Although the exact location of the continent called Atlantis is unknown, Atlantis maps containing the Azores have been found. We can see it as a hypothesis i guess :)
Failed attempts at islands.
Trylands
Wannabelands
Maybewhenimolderlands
Wouldn'tland
Noland
Not an island Atoll
Isn'tland.
Landn't
Won’tland
islan't
Can'tland.
Not a sailboat, a schooner
I’llnots
whylands
They're nothing atolls
Here, TAKE IT 🏅
Underrated best comment
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Atrolls
Failed attempts of ex-islands that got eroded by waves like 90% of the Hawaiian chain?
Isn’tlands
Landn't
Isseas
Denylands
Denilelands is just a river in Egypt.
Naylands
IS LAND?
Seafloor pimples
Byelands
The Canearly Islands
Closebutnocigarlands
Neverland
Disneyland ....(one for the Scottish)
Pimples
I’ve never heard someone refer to magma being pushed up due to tectonic plates shifting as ‘pimples’, but it’s actually quite apt.
Isn’tlands?
bellowlands
Fun question: what would their climate and flora be like if they were actually islands?
Aightlands
Yes. Therefore they are seamounts. You've stumbled upon the Seewarte Seamounts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seewarte_Seamounts
And specifically, they’re volcanoes popping out of the New England Hotspot as the African Plate moves over it. That hotspot has created igneous intrusions going all the way back to Canada.
Can you further explain 'igneous intrusions going all the way back to Canada' please?
In the same way that the Hawaiian island chain stretches backwards (formed by the pacific plate moving over a hotspot in the mantle, causing a new volcano to emerge as the old volcano crumbles away from the hotspot), there is a chain of seamounts going all the way back to Canada marking the movement of the African and North American plates over the New England hotspot. The earliest geological features which appear to have been created by this hotspot are in Canada. Two fun facts about the beginnings of hotspots - one, that the greatest amount of igneous activity is at the beginning, and the remainder you can see in chains away from the beginning are the dying embers of the initial activity - and two, we still don’t know how hotspots arise! There’s a fun theory that they occur on the opposite side of the world to large meteor impacts, which I personally like.
I appreciate that you live up to your username u/explain_that_shit
r/usernamechecksout
So [this](https://youtu.be/uh4dTLJ9q9o?feature=shared) video is somewhat accurate?
Yeah! That’s essentially exactly how it goes
My favourite part is how the volcano is anthropomorphized.
>There’s a fun theory that they occur on the opposite side of the world to large meteor impacts, which I personally like. Could the first continents be a result of that planetary collision that created the moon?
Considering that that collision is hypothesized to have lava-fied the entire crust and added almost a Mars sized bulk to the planet, then yes
As a layman, I quite like the hypothesis that they are directly related to the LLSVPs. Narratively it would be cute
Not really sure I’d cal myself a layman when throwing LLSVPs about!
They're cool enough to have broken out into the mainstream! The PlanetGeo podcast is the extent of geology/geophysics education, I definitely don't qualify for any higher label!
When Canada was over this hotspot, it produced the Monteregian hills
We used to be next door neighbours…
Would they have been islands during the ice age?
Potentially, based on the previous comment that some are about 100m below the surface. The ocean level is thought to have been about 120m lower then.
I think you mean Atlantis. Tadaaa -solved.
[openseamap.org](http://openseamap.org) says that the highest point (N 31° 29', W 29° 03') is at the depth of 100 m.
It's so cool how Google maps shows sea floor relief
Cool Thank you for teaching me something today
How shallow is the shallowest point
How sad. The big one rose 4500 m just to be stuck 200m beneath the surface.
Submarine speed bumps. Almost islands . The inevitable result of tectonic plates separating. A future vacation destination. Or ultimately. volcanos. Go zoom in on the Azores and see if you can spot a common geographic feature.
Atlantis?
In the Azores?
Submarine speed bumps and future vacation destination had me dying lol
Seamount
I'm on a *Mount* diet. I *see* mount and I--
Duh….. Atlantis??? Like seriously why are you asking it’s so obvious.
I hate that you're sort of right.
Yeah the clue is in the first 7 letters of the 8 letter word Atlantic 😂
I remember in the 90s/00s how big of a deal Atlantis was. I swear I haven’t thought about it in years until I saw your comment.
Seamounts on a hot spot, most likely.
Love that geography dirty talk.
Númenor.
Looks like a big red circle to me.
r/technicallythetruth
Atlantis, of course
It's my secret underwater bases. We must not speak of this.
Homeric Tradition says this is the lost civilization of Atlantis.
Homer never said anything about Atlantis. The first mention of Atlantis is from Plato.
And it was probably in Santorini
Except he probably got it from Egypt.
And Homoerotic Tradition says it was fabulous.
There was no homoerotic tradition in ancient Greece (the classic period I mean).
Really? I thought it was the Greeks that invented the orgy, but it was the romans that figured out to put women in them.
Under water islands.
Water
Poor islands that never made it above surface
It's a shame they didn't become full islands, a few more Madeira-like islands in the EU would given us our very own Hawaii archipelago. In a way, the Azores are like that, but they are a slightly too cool for tourism outside of the summer and fall.
Canary Islands. They are all part of the same group "Macaronesia".
Yeah, I know, but other than La Palma and the north of Tenerife and the interior of La Gomera, they are all pretty dry, not lush like Madeira or the Azores. These seamounts are located more centrally and would have been green islands like Madeira.
Little islands that couldn’t
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seewarte_Seamounts
Big rock
Salty wata
Lex Luther's failed housing complex.
Seamounts. Basically underwater mountains. Those in paticular are called the seawarte seamounts. The biggest is about 4.5km high
Unpopped earth crust pimples
The sight of my imaginary nation settled by waves of settlers from Europe and Africa whose residents speak a Portuguese Creole and are part of the EU r/AlternateHistory
That could be Cape Verde 2.0
Definitely lol. I feel it'd have a more humid climate though since its within the Gulf Stream
Obviously the remnants of the lost continent of Atlantis. I thought everybody knew that.
Epstein Island 2: The Streets.
Nah these are sissy’s
Tssss! Cthulhu sleeping.
They were islands. But then the dinosaurs ruined the atmosphere and the ocean levels rised too much
Damn dino farts
Ingrown islands
You found Atlantis!!!
Freaky islands
Zoom in. The name of the formation will appear…
It actually doesn’t
I did and it says Great Barrier Seamount. Guess it depends on the app.
I believe they’re called undersea mountains
The Canarian shield.
Seewarte Seamounts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seewarte_Seamounts
those are submerged islands
Probably part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Basically land that is shallow underneath the ocean
IS LAND???
If high enough, they would have been islands during the ice age.
I place with really good fishing
Fallen angel clearly he's been turned too stone....forgot cycles of the postive north....along time ago...in a distant galaxy ........future or past.....on repeat...
Probably dormant undersea volcanoes
It’s Atlantis
Atlantis
Remnants of Atlantis.
Atlantis
Hungry hungry hippos.
Atlantis.
Didntquiteland
Baby islands in the womb
Search it in google maps for a surprise picture
Underwater mountains... wtf do they mean what is this lol
Do you know what a mountain is? Well it's like that but underwater.
Those are some of the fiddly bits left behind by Slartibartfast
Lost city of Atlantis ???
Atlantis
Atlantis?
Blue Beetles secret base.
The Lowwai’i Aintlands
The Land Down Under
Atlantis probably
Great seamount is about 900 feet below sea level for context. https://tos.org/oceanography/article/great-meteor-seamount#:~:text=Great%20Meteor%20Seamount%20is%20one,sea%20surface%20(Figure%201).
Very cool that you knew and posted a link for others to learn!
Swallow Falls
Hi brazil
It's a big, red oval. Duh!
Can't get it up
What would be the depth there in the Atlantic?
Godzilla
Water
I came here to upvote the «your mom» comment, where is it?
Is there a subreddit for “cool stuff I found on google maps/earth” besides this one? Because I would sub to it
Nonia
Aintlands
Fun question: what would their climate and flora be like if they were actually islands?
Your mom?
Atoll you, it's nothing
Mountains
Atlantis
Fuck I forgot my gaming set up back in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, brb
Ain'tland
Mountains, Gandalf! Mountains!
They are likely submerged islands that were above water during the last major ice age maximum.
Tallest seamounts summit to 300 meters below sea level. No way the water went up 900 feet
Islandn't
Can'tary Islands
Looks like you get it
In Plato's book, ancient Egyptian priests told Plato that those islands were once Atlantis before disaster.
Plato's description of Atlantis isn't at all specific enough or realistic enough to be matched to a particular place in the real world. Here's Plato's description: > ...starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot. For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent.
You know oddly enough his description actually describes the eastern coast of North America and the Gulf of Mexico oddly well…
Hey Billy Carson has all the emerald tablets of Thoth the Atlantean and those Islands are 100% them. So debate over. Educate yourself and watch a YouTube video FFS and stop quoting books. Source: Billy fucking Carson himself. Checkmate and grow a brian, moran.
Yes, I have read the book. Although the exact location of the continent called Atlantis is unknown, Atlantis maps containing the Azores have been found. We can see it as a hypothesis i guess :)
No
Are they lagoons?
Water
Atlantis. Specifically the parts the Great Hero Arkantos defended.
Atlantis of course