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Fig. 4: Map of the Adventure bank, depth contours every 100 m. TLB, Talbot bank; ADV, Adventure
bank; PNT, Pantelleria bank; TTD, Tetide volcano; ANF, Anfitrite volcano; GLT, Galatea volcano;
CMT, Cimotoe, volcano.

The Empedocle seamount is a large underwater relief, rising on the deep sea floor from 250
m to about 500 m, on which are implanted dozen well-structured buildings of very variable
dimensions, often aligned and lengthened according to the orientation of the Sicily Channel
(NW-SE). Among them Graham bank (-6.9 m), which is on the building of Ferdinandea
volcano, Nerita (-16.5 m) and Terrible (-20 m) banks, are arranged as an irregular horseshoe
open to the NNW (Fig. 5).

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