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'Kodiak Seamount' is the oldest seamount in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, with an estimated age of 24 million years.[1] It lies at the northernmost end of the chain. Like the rest of the Kodiak-Bowie seamounts, it was formed by the Bowie hotspot.
Kodiak Seamount will eventually be destroyed by subduction by the Aleutian Trench once it is carried into the trench by the ongoing plate motion, although this will not fully occur for several million more years if the current rate of motion is maintained. Although Kodiak is the oldest extant seamount in the Kodiak-Bowie chain, the question of whether there were older seamounts in the chain which have already been subducted into the trench remains open, and is the subject of ongoing scientific research.
1. NOAA Ocean Explorer: Gulf of Alaska 2004 Retrieved on 2007-09-03
Kodiak Seamount will eventually be destroyed by subduction by the Aleutian Trench once it is carried into the trench by the ongoing plate motion, although this will not fully occur for several million more years if the current rate of motion is maintained. Although Kodiak is the oldest extant seamount in the Kodiak-Bowie chain, the question of whether there were older seamounts in the chain which have already been subducted into the trench remains open, and is the subject of ongoing scientific research.
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1. NOAA Ocean Explorer: Gulf of Alaska 2004 Retrieved on 2007-09-03
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