A seamount is a submarine volcanic mountain. Would you expect older volcanoes to be seamounts or islands. explain your answer.

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Mareli Novak

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3 March, 08:44

A seamount is a submarine volcanic mountain. Would you expect older volcanoes to be seamounts or islands. explain your answer.

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Koty · Answer 1

I would expect them to be islands. As a volcano grows older the magma it releases would accumulate and solidify until the volcano was no longer below the water level. The longer a volcano is active the less likely it is to remain underwater due to this gradual build up.