Lemkein

Short description: Seamount in the Pacific Ocean

Lemkein

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Lemkein is a seamount in the Western Pacific Ocean, west of Kwajalein.[1]

It is part of the Magellan Seamounts[2] and is a volcanic seamount covered with sediments. Ferromanganese crusts occur in some places.[3] Basalts in the form of pillow lavas altered to clay and zeoliths have been recovered from Lemkein.[4] Like other Magellan Seamounts, it formed south of the equator and was moved to its present-day position by plate tectonics.[5]

## References

1. ↑ Hein et al. 1998, p. 57.
2. ↑ Hyeong, Kiseong; Kim, Jonguk; Yoo, Chan Min; Moon, Jai-Woon; Seo, Inah (December 2013). "Cenozoic history of phosphogenesis recorded in the ferromanganese crusts of central and western Pacific seamounts: Implications for deepwater circulation and phosphorus budgets" (in en). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392: 294. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.012. ISSN 0031-0182. Bibcode: 2013PPP...392..293H.
3. ↑ Kim, Jonguk; Hyeong, Kiseong; Jung, Hoi-Soo; Moon, Jai-Woon; Kim, Ki-Hyune; Lee, Insung (December 2006). "Southward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the western Pacific during the late Tertiary: Evidence from ferromanganese crusts on seamounts west of the Marshall Islands" (in en). Paleoceanography 21 (4). doi:10.1029/2006pa001291. ISSN 0883-8305. Bibcode: 2006PalOc..21.4218K.
4. ↑ Hein et al. 1998, p. 4.
5. ↑ Park, Jinsub; Jung, Jaewoo; Ko, Youngtak; Lee, Yongmoon; Yang, Kiho (February 2023). "Reconstruction of the Paleo‐Ocean Environment Using Mineralogical and Geochemical Analyses of Mixed‐Type Ferromanganese Nodules From the Tabletop of Western Pacific Magellan Seamount" (in en). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24 (2): 9. doi:10.1029/2022GC010768. ISSN 1525-2027.

### Sources

* Hein, James R.; Moon, Jai-Woon; Lee, Kyeong-Yong; Kim, Ki-Hyun; Roberts, Leanne; Burrows, Malia; Park, S.H.; Dowling, Jennifer et al. (1998). ﻿Composition of Co-rich ferromanganese crusts and substrate rocks from the Marshall Islands, cruise KODOS 97-4﻿ (Report). https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr98375.

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