West Mata Volcano
Recently there was an underwater volcano discovered in an area in the pacific around Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. The reason this volcano is so special, at nearly 4000 feet below the surface, it is the deepest volcano ever found. NOAA captured this on camera. Because the pressure that far down is so great, the eruption is compressed. This means the camera can get within feet of the eruption, capturing detailed pillows of lava. The West Mata Volcano is also producing boninite lavas, believed to be among the hottest on Earth in modern times, and a type seen before only on extinct volcanoes more than one million years old. The West Mata volcano gives them the opportunity to study magma formation at volcanoes, and to learn more about how Earth recycles material where one tectonic plate is subducted under another.
WATCH THE ERUPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCH6dVcxL3c
Soarce
http://geology.com/press-release/west-mata-volcano/
Recently there was an underwater volcano discovered in an area in the pacific around Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. The reason this volcano is so special, at nearly 4000 feet below the surface, it is the deepest volcano ever found. NOAA captured this on camera. Because the pressure that far down is so great, the eruption is compressed. This means the camera can get within feet of the eruption, capturing detailed pillows of lava. The West Mata Volcano is also producing boninite lavas, believed to be among the hottest on Earth in modern times, and a type seen before only on extinct volcanoes more than one million years old. The West Mata volcano gives them the opportunity to study magma formation at volcanoes, and to learn more about how Earth recycles material where one tectonic plate is subducted under another.
WATCH THE ERUPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCH6dVcxL3c
Soarce
http://geology.com/press-release/west-mata-volcano/
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