Pukao (seamount)

Short description: Submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain

Pukao Seamount

Summit depth| Below Sea level
Height| 2500+ m
Location
Location| west of Easter Island
Geology
Type| Submarine volcano
Volcanic arc/chain| Sala Y Gomez ridge
Age of rock| Pleistocene
Last eruption| >100,000 BCE

The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.[1] The Pukao Seamount is fairly young, and believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.

## See also

* Easter Island
* Sala y Gómez

## References

1. ↑ Haase, Karsten M.; Peter Stoffers and C. Dieter Garbe-Schönberg (October 1997). "The Petrogenetic Evolution of Lavas from Easter Island and Neighbouring Seamounts, Near-ridge Hotspot Volcanoes in the SE Pacific". Journal of Petrology 38 (6): 785–813. doi:10.1093/petrology/38.6.785.

[ ⚑ ]  26°55′56″S 110°14′56″W﻿ / ﻿26.9323°S 110.2490°W﻿ / -26.9323; -110.2490

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