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How do mountains form under water ?


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You are actually looking at rock at the ocean bottom being pushed by internal pressure to the surface of the water.

Glenn

Mountains form under water the same way they do above water. Volcanic activity, continental plate movement, and rising plumes of magma do the same things underwater as they do on land.

D. Felix


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