24/03/2016 · Tamu Massif is about the size of Japan, larger than Olympus Mons, Zhang said. Towering 22km above ground, Olympus Mons on Mars is …

06/09/2013 · Mars’ Olympus Mons may have company in biggest volcanoes club—on Earth Geophysicists studied an underwater body called the Tamu Massif. And it's massive. Scott K. Johnson - Sep 6, 2013 6:15 pm UTC

05/09/2013 · Tamu Massif rivals the size of Olympus Mons on Mars. Alexandra Witze; 05 September 2013. Article tools ... ‘Tamu’ is an acronym for Texas A&M University in College Station, where Sager was ...

06/09/2013 · Called the Tamu Massif, the enormous mound dwarfs the previous record holder, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, and is only 25 percent smaller than Olympus Mons on Mars, the biggest volcano in Earth's solar system, said William Sager, lead study author and a geologist at the University of Houston.

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano on Mars and it is the largest volcano in the Solar System. ... The Tamu Massif is an extinct submarine shield volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean. That it could be a single volcano, was announced on 5 September 2013; if corroborated, this would make Tamu Massif the largest known volcano on Earth. ...

31/08/2018 · As noted by National Geographic back then, this puts the Tamu Massif in the same league as Olympus Mons – and a follow-up report a few …

Tamu Massif even rivals the size of Olympus Mons on Mars. Olympus Mons is the largest known volcano in our solar system. ... They named it Tamu, which is the abbreviation for Texas A&M University, where Sager was a professor at the time. Massif is a geological term for large mountain mass and the French word for massive.

According to the article Underwater volcano is Earth's biggest (Witze, 2013), that although the 140 million year old Tamu Massif is not as tall as Olympus Mons (nor even Mauna Kea) - in fact, it is still an impressive 4km above the sea floor, its 'footprint rivals that of Olmpus Mons', a comparison is shown below (the source is the linked article):