Monday, June 05, 2006
Nature Paper Details Eruption Activity at Submarine Volcano
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NEWPORT, Ore., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of scientists has presented its findings from the first observations of the eruption of a submarine volcano that in 2004 and 2005 spewed out plumes of sulfur-rich fluid and pulses of volcanic ash 550 meters below the ocean's surface near the Mariana Islands northwest of Guam.
Those findings will be published Thursday in Nature - just after many of those same scientists returned from another expedition to the site, where they observed new bursts of erupting lava.
The researchers have now observed eruptive activity at the site during three separate visits over a period of more than two years, suggesting that these types of deep-sea volcanoes erupt chronically for longer periods than other undersea...
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Google Earth View of HelenPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Ascribe.org) from United States of America.
NEWPORT, Ore., May 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international team of scientists has presented its findings from the first observations of the eruption of a submarine volcano that in 2004 and 2005 spewed out plumes of sulfur-rich fluid and pulses of volcanic ash 550 meters below the ocean's surface near the Mariana Islands northwest of Guam.
Those findings will be published Thursday in Nature - just after many of those same scientists returned from another expedition to the site, where they observed new bursts of erupting lava.
The researchers have now observed eruptive activity at the site during three separate visits over a period of more than two years, suggesting that these types of deep-sea volcanoes erupt chronically for longer periods than other undersea...
Read More...
