The group was studying seamounts in the ocean south of New Caledonia.
Waves break when they hit an underwater obstruction like a reef or seamount.
These fish live in the open ocean and return to the seamounts to breed.
The collected samples consist of drilled ocean floor basalts from all three seamounts.
In-depth studies have given scientists a detailed view of the seamount's internal structure.
The province consists of more than 50 seamounts, up to 4500mft -2 in height, within a 1080000km2 -2 area.
All the seamounts in the group are complex northeast-southwest trending structures, consisting of parallel ridges separated by sediment-filled troughs.
Interestingly, 13 species have been identified in other areas, but never in other seamounts.
