Volcanic Pumice “Raft” from Seamount Volcano “F” in the Pacific Reaches Australia

By Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019, European Space Agency (ESA) Attribution, Link



A Stupendously Huge Raft of Volcanic Rock has floated across the Ocean to Australia
(Peter DOCKRILL, Science Alert; August 20, 2020)
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-gigantic-raft-of-volcanic-rock-drifted-across-the-ocean-all-the-way-to-australia

Volcano F is the origin of the floating stones
(News Release, EurekAlert!; 9 December 2019)
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/hcfo-vfi120919.php

Selected Research Articles:

The largest deep ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century

(CAREY et al., 2018)

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/1/e1701121.full.pdf

On the fate of pumice rafts formed during the 2012 Havre submarine eruption 

(JUTZELER et al., 2014)

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms4660/

Rapid Long-Distance Dispersal of Pumice rafting

(BRYAN et al., 2012)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040583

Satellite Observations of New Volcanic Island in Tonga
(VAUGHAN et al., 2007)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2007EO040002

Website:

Global Volcanism Program
(Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History)
https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=243091

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