Peirce Seamount

Peirce Seamount

Infobox Seamount
Name=Peirce Seamount

Location map
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lon_deg=136|lon_min=32|lon_dir=W
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caption=Location of Peirce Seamount

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Location= North Pacific Ocean
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Country= Canada
Type=Submarine volcano
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Peirce Seamount, also called Pierce Seamount, is a seamount located in the Pacific Ocean west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. It lies between Denson Seamount and Hodgkins Seamount and is member of the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, a chain of seamounts in southeastern Gulf of Alaska stretching from the Aleutian Trench in the north to Bowie Seamount in the south.Fact|date=July 2008

ee also

*List of volcanoes in Canada
*Volcanism in Canada

References

External links

* [http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/er.cgi?s=sc.cgi%3Fid%3DSMNT-537N-1366W Seamount Catalog -- Peirce Seamount]


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