Monday, January 15, 2018

Massive underwater volcanic eruption spewed rock raft visible from space

Over 70 percent of volcanic activity on our planet occurs on the seafloor, but scientists don't always get a close-up view of the events typically hidden by seawater. In 2012, the Havre volcano, northeast of New Zealand, erupted - and this time researchers got a chance to study the aftermath in what the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution described as "the first up-close investigation of the largest underwater volcanic eruption of the past century." The eruption was so massive it generated a raft...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/massive-underwater-volcanic-eruption-spewed-rock-raft-visible-from-space
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