### formation | mountain:

Seamount
* Most seamounts form along fracture zones and ocean ridges.
* Some seamounts rise above the water's surface.
  * are one of the most common oceanic ecosystems in the world. Interactions between seamounts and underwater currents, and their raised position in the water, attract plankton, corals, fish, and cetacea alike. Their effect has been noted by the commercial fishing industry, and many seamounts support extensive fisheries. There are concerns about the effect of fishing on seamount ecosystems. There are well-documented cases of stock decline. Report of the Secretary-General, 2006
  - a possible future source of economically important metals
  - home to many commercial fish and are therefore very beneficial to our economy
  - present in many of the ocean basins
* are underwater mountains formed by volcanic activity
  - volcanoes that appear over a mid-ocean ridge or a hot spot
  - virtual oases on a comparatively barren sea floor
  - where some of the targeted fisheries for species such as orange roughy occur
* form as a result of the same activity.
* often occur far from mid-ocean ridges and trenches.
* retain their pointy shape on top because they have never reached the ocean's surface.
* rise from the abyssal plain.
* seem to be deep-sea islands, each holding a collection of organisms found nowhere else.

### formation | mountain | seamount:

Guyot
* are seamounts that have built above sea level
  - with flat tops
+ Guyot, Description: Plate tectonics :: Seamounts
  * Guyots show evidence of having been above the surface at one time. The exposed area was shaped by erosion caused by rain, wind and waves.

Snowy mountain
* cause a desire to skis.
* cover the interior, and wildlife roam the coastal shores and Andean national parks.
* have avalanches.

Volcanic mountain
* destroy themselves in various ways.
* form when molten rock erupts onto the Earth's surface.
* run from north to south and are thickly forested.

Natural spring
* can create unstable ice conditions
  - exist in which the ground water simply breaks through to the surface
* occur throughout the mountains where the water table is close to the surface.
* provide fresh water year round to maintain the fresh taste of our fish.

### formation:

Pattern formation
* arises in different contexts in a variety of systems.
* concerns the processes by which cells acquire positional information.
* continues throughout the life of a plant in the apical meristems.
* is concerned with the formation of regular or irregular spatial structures
  - dependent on the genetic competence of the cells in the field
  - essential to the development of all organisms
  - modeled in terms of nonlinear partial differential equations
* organizes cell types into their proper locations based on positional information.

### formation:

Pit
* Most pits have walls.
* Some pits are dug by rodents.
* Some pits contain enough soil to provide homes for rare and unusual plants
  - highly acid liquids and several chlorinated organic chemicals
* are cells or groups of cells that are completely surrounded by cells of higher elevations
  - which are completely surrounded by cells of higher elevations
  - dug in rows along contour according to the row spacing of melon
  - often on different levels and water can flow from one into another
  - present in the cell wall and provide a mechanism for intercellular communication
* are the cores of nuclear weapons and act as triggers for their detonation
  - metallic shells inside the fission components of modern nuclear weapons
* gradually become unusable due to vermin, insects, and mold.
* have concrete walls
* indicate consumption of a hard, brittle food such as nuts or beetles.
* ovens common to bake plant roots, sotol, lechugilla.
* shown in the upper and lower jaws are probably openings for blood vessels and nerves.