Mapping the Century's Biggest Undersea Eruption Reveals How Seafloor Volcanoes Are Misunderstood (1 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Mapping the Century's Biggest Undersea Eruption Reveals How Seafloor Volcanoes Are Misunderstood (1 of 9)

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Image of the Havre submarine volcano 650 meters below sea level, which was the site of the largest underwater eruption of the past century. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 January 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Carey at University of Tasmania in Hobart, TAS, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "The largest deep-ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century."

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[Credit: University of Tasmania, Australia. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute]

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