Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:56 PM
xchrom (90,495 posts)
Vast volcanic 'raft' found in Pacific, near New Zealand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19207810
A navy officer described the floating spectacle as the "weirdest thing" he had seen at sea A vast "raft" of volcanic rocks covering 10,000 sq miles (26,000 sq km) of ocean has been spotted by a New Zealand military aircraft. A naval ship was forced to change course in order to avoid the cluster of buoyant rocks, located 1,000 miles off the New Zealand coast. The unusual phenomenon was probably the result of pumice being released from an underwater volcano, experts said.
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 Vast volcanic 'raft' found in Pacific, near New Zealand (Original post) |
xchrom | Aug 2012 | OP |
| Viva_La_Revolution | Aug 2012 | #1 | |
| freshwest | Aug 2012 | #2 | |
| StrictlyRockers | Aug 2012 | #3 | |
| Speck Tater | Aug 2012 | #4 | |
| xchrom | Aug 2012 | #5 |
Response to xchrom (Original post)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:47 PM
1. a similar thing happened when el Hierro went off last year
Response to Viva_La_Revolution (Reply #1)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:50 PM
freshwest (31,342 posts)
2. Thanks, learning a lot here.
Response to xchrom (Original post)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 02:47 PM
StrictlyRockers (1,826 posts)
3. Volcanos have floaters?
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Who knew?
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Response to Speck Tater (Reply #4)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 04:29 PM
xchrom (90,495 posts)
5. It's always something. Nt
