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Scientists Are Mapping the World's Largest Volcano
National Geographic ^ | 21 Nov, 2015 | Brian Clark Howard

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 world’s largest—and possibly most mysterious—volcano, 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, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; tamumassif; volcano
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To: Talisker

Army Brat, 1951-1961.
Sagamihara and Yokohama.


21 posted on 11/24/2015 4:22:55 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: MtnClimber
No. It was the Mt Tambora eruption of 1815 (VEI of 7), killed 92,000 odd. The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was 10X smaller (VEI of 6), killed 36,000 odd. See here: List of large volcanic eruptions of the 19th century
22 posted on 11/24/2015 4:58:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Army Brat, 1951-1961. Sagamihara and Yokohama

LOL, Me too! Camp Zama, 1959.

23 posted on 11/24/2015 9:31:02 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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