Posted on 11/23/2015 7:25:33 PM PST by MtnClimber
After 36 days of battling sharks that kept biting their equipment, scientists have returned from the remote Pacific Ocean with a new way of looking at the worldâs largestâand possibly most mysteriousâvolcano, Tamu Massif.....
Tamu Massif lies about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) east of Japan. It is a rounded dome, or shield volcano, measuring 280 by 400 miles (450 by 650 kilometers). Its top lies more than a mile (about 2,000 meters) below the ocean surface and is 50 times larger than the biggest active volcano on Earth, Hawaiiâs Mauna Loa.
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Army Brat, 1951-1961.
Sagamihara and Yokohama.
LOL, Me too! Camp Zama, 1959.
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