Apparently they’ve been hiding at the bottom of the ocean. Sneaky mountains.
A marine gravity model of the North Atlantic with red dots showing the locations of earthquakes above 5.5 magnitude, highlighting the present-day location of the seafloor.
Reuters/David Sandwell/Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego
The huge number of new mountains haven't been hiding in plain sight (say, lurking behind bigger mountains) – they're at the bottom of the ocean.
The researchers used radar satellites that indirectly detect tiny variations in the gravitational pull of Earth to create a more accurate map of the seafloor than has ever been produced, and have published their results in Science magazine.
One of the new maps created by the research.
portal.gplates.org / Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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