page_title: Musicians Seamounts
section_title: Geography and geomorphology
hierarchical_section_title: Musicians Seamounts / Geography and geomorphology
caption_attribution_description: English: The geology highlight of the dive at Mozart Seamount was a field of nearly spherical intact “pillow balls” at approxiamtely 3,765 meters.
context_page_description: Musicians Seamounts are a chain of seamounts in the Pacific Ocean, north of the Hawaiian Ridge. There are about 65 seamounts, some of which are named after musicians. These seamounts exist in two chains, one of which has been attributed to a probably now-extinct hotspot called the Euterpe hotspot. Others may have formed in response to plate tectonics associated with the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the former Farallon Plate.
  The seamounts were constructed on young oceanic crust during the Cretaceous, but a second phase of volcanic activity took place during the Eocene. Deep sea coral reefs occur on the seamounts.
context_section_description: The Musicians Seamounts lie in the north-central Pacific, north of the Hawaiian Ridge north and northwest of Necker Island, extending over a length of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi). The seamounts were formerly known as the North Hawaiian Seamount Range and were among the first submarine mountains to be thoroughly researched.
  The seamounts consist of two separate chains (one trending in north-south direction parallel to the Emperor Seamounts and the other in northwest-southeast direction parallel to the northern Line Islands) of ridges that extend east-west and seamounts. Seamounts have usually an elliptical cross section and heights of 1,000–4,000 metres (3,300–13,100 ft) and no flat tops like other seamounts south of the Hawaiian Ridge; the highest is Liszt Seamount whose summit has a depth of 1,582 metres (5,190 ft). The ridges contain individual volcanoes and reach lengths of over 400 kilometres (250 mi); in the Italian and Bach Ridges the volcanoes are 2.2–5.1 kilometres (1.4–3.2 mi) high. The Musicians horst and the Southern Ridges are additional features of the Musicians Seamounts. Terrain observed by remotely operated vehicles shows large blocks, pillow lavas, flat terrain, lava flows and talus. 
  The total number of seamounts is about 65, some of which Henry William Menard named after 18th century musicians. Among the seamounts known by name are:
  The "Northwest Cluster"
  Rossini (32°12′N 163°00′W)
  Bizet (32.26°N 161.63°W)
  Godard (31.48°N 164.56°W)
  Wagner (31°46′N 162°54′W)
  Shostakovich (33°16′N 164°53′W)
  Strauss (33°18′N 164°09′W)
  Bellini (32°42′N 163°11′W)
  Verdi (31.60°N 162.90°W)
  Puccini (32°15′N 162°21′W)
  Schubert (31.90°N 162.10°W)
  Donizetti (32.33°N 160.00°W)
  Hammerstein (32.46°N 165.76°W)
  Mahler (31.60°N 165.00°W)
  Brahms (31.15°N 162.31°W)
  Mussorgski (30°22′N 163°50′W)
  Debussy (30.30°N 162.09°W)
  Dvorak (30°31′N 161°20′W)
  Rachmaninoff (29°35′16.6″N 163°21′0.6″W)
  Tchaikovsky (29.39°N 162.09°W)
  Liszt (29.00°N 162.00°W)
  Paganini (28°41′N 162°40′W)
  Mozart (28°40′N 161°43′W)
  Khachaturian (28°8′27.9″N 162°18′54.6″W)
  Grieg (27°51′N 162°03′W)
  Gounod (27°53′N 161°20′W)
  Handel (27.50°N 159.80°W)
  Scarlatti (27°38′5.7″N 160°14′10.5″W)
  Ravel (27°16′N 161°40′W)
  Gluck (26°53′N 160°06′W)
  Sibelius (27°13′N 160°44′W)
  Chopin (26.10°N 162.00°W)
  Haydn (26.67°N 161.20°W)
  Bach Ridge (26.50°N 158.40°W)
  West Schumann
  West Mendelssohn
  East Mendelssohn
  Prokofiev (25°51′N 157°53′W)
  Paumakua (24.83°N 157.08°W).
caption: Landscape on Mozart Seamount
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