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Underwater Volcanoes a Hotbed of Clues to Earth’s Movements

Night view of the JOIDES Resolution, docked in Auckland, New Zealand, before its departure. Credit: D. Buchs, Australian National University.  Nearly half a mile of rock retrieved from beneath the...

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Doomsday fire: Millions of volcanoes are stirring beneath the world’s oceans

theextinctionprotocol In 1993, marine geophysicists aboard the research vessel Melville discovered 1,133 previously unmapped underwater volcanoes off the coast of Easter Island. Though some of the...

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800-Mile-Wide Hot Anomaly Found Under Seafloor off Hawaii

nationalgeographic  Hot lava spills into the sea from under a hardened lava crust on the Big Island of Hawaii (file picture). Photograph by Patrick McFeeley, National Geographic Dave Mosher for...

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Underwater Antarctic Volcano Chain Discovered In The Southern Ocean

nanopatentsandinnovations Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne...

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Surprise Underwater Volcanic Eruption Discovered

ouramazingplanet The chain is all that is visible of an ocean-bottom hydrophone, an instrument that detects earthquakes, buried in about six feet of new lava produced by a recent eruption at the Axial...

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