SPOTLIGHT 12 | Sedlo Seamount

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Ricardo S. Santos | Instituto do Mar (IMAR), Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR), and Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, and University of the Azores, Horta, Faial, Portugal

Fernando Tempera | IMAR, ISR, and Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Horta, Faial, Portugal

Gui Menezes | IMAR, ISR, and Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Horta, Faial, Portugal

Filipe Porteiro | IMAR, ISR, and Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Horta, Faial, Portugal

Telmo Morato | IMAR, ISR, and Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Horta, Faial, Portugal, and is also with the Oceanic Fisheries Program, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia

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Sedlo is an isolated seamount in the Northeast Atlantic, 180 km northwest of Graciosa Island, within the Azores/Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone. Sedlo is elongated, flat-topped, about 75 km by 30 km, and has three peaks (Figure 1). It rises steeply from a depth of about 3000 m, reaching 660 m at its shallowest part. The tablemount shape of this massif indicates that its top was once located at sea level and was abraded by oceanic swells before subsiding considerably.

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Citation

Santos, R.S., F. Tempera, G. Menezes, F. Porteiro, and T. Morato. 2010. Spotlight 12: Sedlo Seamount. Oceanography 23(1):202–203, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.84.

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