Taney Seamounts

{{Short description|Underwater volcanoes west of San Francisco, CA, USA}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Taney Seamounts

| map = Pacific_Ocean

| map_caption = Bathymetry of the seamount chain

| volume = {{convert|11|km3|cumi|0|abbr=on}} to {{convert|187|km3|cumi|0|abbr=on}} in volume

| location = Pacific Ocean, west of San Francisco

| part_type = Peaks

| part = Five seamounts (underwater volcanoes)

| coordinates = {{coord|36.6882|-125.3375|display=inline,title}} http://www.mbari.org/data/mapping/seamounts/images/TaneyA.jpg {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

| type = Volcanic chain

| age = ~26 million years

}}

The Taney Seamounts are a range of five extinct underwater volcanoes located {{convert|300|km|nmi mi}} west of San Francisco on the Pacific Plate.{{cite web|url=http://www.mbari.org/data/mapping/seamounts/taney.htm|title=Mapping Program: Taney Seamounts|date=Feb 6, 2009|publisher=Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute|accessdate=29 December 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212023041/http://www.mbari.org/data/mapping/seamounts/taney.htm|archivedate=12 December 2010}} The seamounts were identified during the United States Geological Survey's scan of the Exclusive Economic Zone,{{cite book|last=Petersen|first=J.K.|title=Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History, & Applications, Revised and Expanded Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3Ctc71UmwIC&pg=PA228|year=2007|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-8493-8320-5|page=228}} conducted in the 1980s with the GLORIA sidescan sonar.{{cite web | url = http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/gloria/ | title = U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) GLORIA Mapping Program | publisher = US Geological Survey | accessdate = 6 November 2010}}