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River channels in mountain landscapes tend to have upward-concave shapes in profile. In this study, the shapes of channels formed in the sides of a Cretaceous-age seamount (submarine volcano) from near Hawaii were compared with channels in subaerial volcanoes and channels in a seamount in the Mediterranean, which was suspected to have been eroded by rainwater during the Miocene period when the Mediterranean Sea desiccated. We found these different features had remarkably similar geometrical properties, indicating no characteristic signatures of submarine erosion.
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This page is a summary of: Submarine and subaerial erosion of volcanic landscapes: comparing Pacific Ocean seamounts with Valencia Seamount, exposed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Basin Research, December 2008, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00355.x.
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