Scientist Autopsy the Aftermath of the Largest Underwater Volcanic Eruption of the Last Century
In 2012, the Royal New Zealand Navy happened upon something very curious—miles and miles of pumice floating in the South Pacific. As it turns out, the rocky patch, which totaled 150 square miles, was belched up from an undersea volcano.
In 2015, a team of scientists first took an in-depth look at the volcano, and as Meghan Bartels at Newsweek reports, their findings show the eruption was the largest deep sea eruption in the last century and very different from what they expected.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-finds-undersea-volcanos-unusual-eruption-180967827/#Z8YTEvqQfI8kzYvM.99
