Key facts
- Summit depth
- 1,980 metres (6,500 ft)
- Height
- 4,460 metres (14,620 ft)
- Location
- Northwest Pacific Ocean
- Range
- Shatsky Rise
- Type
- Seamount ( underwater volcano ), shield volcano
- Age of rock
- 144.6 ± 0.8 Ma
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- submarine volcano
- Named after
- Texas A&M University
- Elevation
- -1980
- Material used
- basalt
- Image
- Tamu Massif, the Earth's largest volcano, about 1,000 Miles east of Japan.jpg
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Tamu Massif is a seamount in the northwest Pacific Ocean, sitting atop a triple junction of mid-ocean ridges. Tamu Massif is located in the Shatsky Rise about 1,600 km (990 mi) east of Japan. The massif covers an area of about 553,000 square kilometres (214,000 mi). Its summit is about 1,980 m (6,500 ft) below the surface of the ocean, and its base extends to about 6.4 km (4.0 mi) deep, making it about 4,460 metres (14,620 ft) tall.
* Tamu Massif
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamu Massif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.