{"id":2776,"date":"2012-08-01T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2012-08-02T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T06:26:21","slug":"new-mountain-found-deep-west-of-coast-of-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"New mountain found deep west of coast of Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Research Institute (of Iceland) has found new mountain off the coast of Iceland. The mountain is in a plateau in the same area. But it rises up from the ocean floor about 450 meters. The area that was mapped had the size of 300 square kilometer. Depth of the ocean at this location is around 1400 meters. This mountain is possibly an old tuff mountain (volcano). But that is not confirmed. According the news, this mountain has youthful look to it and around three craters where spotted on it. The age in this area is around 20 million years. So this might be a extinct volcano from the time period when volcano activity was ongoing in this area. But it most likely has never been above the coast line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hafsbotn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hafsbotn-1024x1021.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hafsbotn\" width=\"640\" height=\"638\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hafsbotn-1024x1021.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hafsbotn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hafsbotn-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hafsbotn.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe unnamed mountain on the ocean floor off the west coast of Iceland. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Marine Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They found more then just this mountain in this survey. They also found more mud volcanoes off the coast of Iceland. Some of them are reaching 350 meters off the ocean floor. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mud.volcanoes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mud.volcanoes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mud.volcanoes\" width=\"720\" height=\"570\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mud.volcanoes.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mud.volcanoes-300x237.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMud volcanoes appears as spikes in this image. This image has has things four times larger then they actually are. <em>Copyright of this image belongs to Marine Research Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are many more unknowns off the coast of Iceland. As the ocean floor is largely unexplored today. As are many other parts of the ocean floor around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Icelandic news about this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hafro.is\/undir.php?ID=19&#038;nanar=1REF=3&#038;fID=14327\" target=\"_blank\">St\u00f3rt og miki\u00f0 ne\u00f0ansj\u00e1varfjall birtist me\u00f0 fj\u00f6lgeislam\u00e6lingum dj\u00fapt vestur af \u00cdslandi.<\/a> (hafro.is, Icelandic, pictures)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressan.is\/Frettir\/Lesafrett\/hafro-fundu-450-m-hatt-nedansjavarfjall-vestur-af-snaefellsnesi---tifalt-staerra-en-ingolfsfjall\" target=\"_blank\">Hafr\u00f3: Fundu 450 m h\u00e1tt ne\u00f0ansj\u00e1varfjall vestur af Sn\u00e6fellsnesi &#8211; t\u00edfalt st\u00e6rra en Ing\u00f3lfsfjall<\/a> (Pressan.is, Icelandic)<\/p>\n<p><em>Blog post updated at 06:25 UTC on 02.08.2012. Correct English name for Hafranns\u00f3knarstofnun added.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Research Institute (of Iceland) has found new mountain off the coast of Iceland. The mountain is in a plateau in the same area. But it rises up from the ocean floor about 450 meters. The area that was mapped had the size of 300 square kilometer. Depth of the ocean at this location is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=2776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New mountain found deep west of coast of Iceland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,96,146,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extinct-volcanoes","category-mountain","category-mud","category-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}