# The Paps

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**The Paps** is a [Cretaceous](/source/Cretaceous) [seamount](/source/Seamount) of the [Atlantic Ocean](/source/Atlantic_Ocean), located in the [Canary Islands Seamount Province](/source/Canary_Islands_Seamount_Province) (CISP).[1] Featuring an elongated shape, it has a height of 2,700 metres.

## Description

The seamount lies at about 25.92°N 20.30°W,[2] about 300 km to the southwest of [El Hierro](/source/El_Hierro).[3] The age of the seamount has been estimated to 91.1 ± 0.2 million years.[4][3] The seamount, whose top rises up to 1,600 m below sea level from a base that stands at 4,300 m below sea level, consists of a main block elongated along a N–S direction, featuring a secondary NW–SE ridge sprouting from the south east of the main edifice.[4] It features a surface of 2,080 km2.[4]

Common features with the neighbouring Drago seamount, such an elongated shape and the presence of several small volcanic cones, suggest both seamounts may share a similar formation process.[5]

## References

**Citations**

1. Marino et al. 2017, pp. 41–61.

1. Palomino et al. 2016, p. 128.

1. van den Bogaard 2013.

1. Palomino et al. 2016, p. 126.

1. Palomino et al. 2016, p. 138.

**Bibliography**

- Marino, Egidio; González Sanz, Francisco Javier; Somoza, Luis; Lunar, Rosario; Vázquez, J. T.; Reyes, Jesús; Bellido, Eva (2017). "Strategic and rare elements in Cretaceous-Cenozoic cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts from seamounts in the Canary Island Seamount Province (northeastern tropical Atlantic)". *Ore Geology Reviews*. **87**: 41–61. [Bibcode:2017OGRv...87...41M](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017OGRv...87...41M). [doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.10.005](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.10.005)
- Palomino, Desirée; Vázquez, Juan-Tomás; Somoza, Luis; León, Ricardo; López-González, Nieves; Medialdea, Teresa; Fernández-Salas, Luis-Miguel; González, Francisco-Javier; Rengel, Juan Antonio (2016). ["Geomorphological features in the southern Canary Island Volcanic Province: The importance of volcanic processes and massive slope instabilities associated with seamounts"](https://open.igme.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12468/685/geomorphological_features_southern_2016.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y). *Geomorphology*. **255**: 125–139. [Bibcode:2016Geomo.255..125P](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016Geomo.255..125P). [doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.12.016](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.12.016). [hdl:10261/277037](https://hdl.handle.net/10261/277037). [ISSN 0169-555X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0169-555X)
- Rivera, J; Canals, M; Lastras, G; Hermida, N; Amblas, D; Arrese, B (2016). "Morphometry of Concepcion Bank: Evidence of Geological and Biological Processes on a Large Volcanic Seamount of the Canary Islands Seamount Province". *[PLoS ONE](/source/PLOS_ONE)*. **11** (5). [Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1156337R](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PLoSO..1156337R). [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156337](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156337). [PMC 4886973](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886973). [PMID 27243626](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27243626)
- van den Bogaard, Paul (2013). ["The origin of the Canary Island Seamount Province - New ages of old seamounts"](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep02107). *Scientific Reports*. **3**: 2107. [Bibcode:2013NatSR...3E2107V](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013NatSR...3E2107V). [doi:10.1038/srep02107](https://doi.org/10.1038/srep02107). [PMC 3707084](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3707084)

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