How satellite sea level maps reveal hidden seamounts

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There's a whole lot of seamounts out there (news article from Science):

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They were found by looking for where sea levels mounded up around the seamounts (due to their gravity) in satellite scans of sea levels.
 
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Sure beats finding them one at a time by smacking them with submarines. (USS San Francisco, USS Connecticut)
 
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