Saturday, June 24, 2006
Underwater volcano dwarfs Eiffel Tower
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(GulfNews.com).
Rome: An underwater volcano with a base larger than Washington DC has been discovered just off the shores of Sicily, a scientist with Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology said.
The volcanic structure, which incorporates peaks previously thought to be separate volcanoes, was named Empedocles after the Greek philosopher who named the four classic elements of earth, air, fire and water.
Legend has it that the philosopher died by throwing himself into Mount Etna, the nearby Sicilian volcano.
Giovanni Lanzafame, who works at the institute and led the research, said Empedocles was at least 400 metres high taller than the Eiffel Tower.
He said the base of the structure was 30 km long and 25 km wide, spanning an area larger than the...
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Bedfordshire Crop CirclePosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(GulfNews.com).
Rome: An underwater volcano with a base larger than Washington DC has been discovered just off the shores of Sicily, a scientist with Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology said.
The volcanic structure, which incorporates peaks previously thought to be separate volcanoes, was named Empedocles after the Greek philosopher who named the four classic elements of earth, air, fire and water.
Legend has it that the philosopher died by throwing himself into Mount Etna, the nearby Sicilian volcano.
Giovanni Lanzafame, who works at the institute and led the research, said Empedocles was at least 400 metres high taller than the Eiffel Tower.
He said the base of the structure was 30 km long and 25 km wide, spanning an area larger than the...
Read More...
