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Bollons Seamount or Bollons Tablemount is a just east of the International Date Line, a few hundred miles off the coast of New Zealand. It represents a continental fragment that separated from Zealandia as a result of . The seamount was involved in a 2002 survey and collection project defined to find the edge of New Zealand's continental shelf. The Bollons Seamount has been shown to be a site of extensive -era in the area towards the southern between 83.7 and 78.5 MYA.

from the seamount indicate that it was the site of highly irregular activity, with differences in the rifting there being up to . A gap near the seamount, known as the Ballons gap, is interpreted as being due to excess volcanism from the seafloor spreading process. A ridge just south of the seamount, the Antipodes fracture zone, is interpreted as having been built by a combination of compression and volcanic activity associated with the Bellingshausen-Marie Byrd Land nearby.


External links
  • Bollons Seamount at the Seamount database published by Earthref, a National Science Foundation project

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