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Topic: pacific-ocean

Pillow lava, the rounded rock formed when molten basalt erupts underwater

Saturday, 7/18, 10:52 PM

Seismic waves suggest Earth's largest volcanic event rewrote the plate beneath it

The eruptions that built the Ontong Java Plateau in the western Pacific did not simply pile rock onto the sea floor, researchers argue.
Seismic evidence points to magma cutting vertical sheets through the oceanic plate and chemically altering it.

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