Cracking Can Produce Underwater Volcanoes (IMAGE)

University of Sydney

Cracking Can Produce Underwater Volcanoes

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University of Sydney geoscientists have helped prove that the Musicians Ridge Seamounts in the Hawaiian-Emperor chain demonstrate a new type of volcanicsm with undersea volcanoes created from fractures not hot spots.

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Professor Dietmar Muller

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