10,000 square miles of floating volcanic pumice found in Pacific

iceagenow.info ^ | August 10, 2012 | Robert

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Came from an underwater volcano.
The New Zealand Navy announced today that they have found a patch of floating volcanic pumice from an underwater volcano floating about 600 miles off the shore of New Zealand.

“The rock looked to be sitting two foot (half a meter) above the surface of the waves and lit up a brilliant while colour in the spotlight. It looked exactly like the edge of an ice shelf,” said Lieutenant Tim Oscar aboard the ship the HMNZS Canterbury.

Scientists aboard the ship said the white pumice – which covers 10,000 square miles ( 26,000 sq km) – probably came from an underwater volcano called Monowai, which has been active recently, but that it was unrelated to other increased volcanic activity in New Zealand this week.

I wonder what is heating our seas? And I wonder how many fish will dies as a result of this eruption?

See entire article:
http://news.yahoo.com/bizarre-rock-ice-shelf-found-pacific-104349304.html

Thanks to Brian Inman for this link

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

marvelous,...how can this happen?

[Mears]

That is incredible.

[mamelukesabre]

QUICK

Someone call Lava soap company and give them the coordinates of this thing!

[Randy Larsen]

There must be a market just waiting for this opportunity! It must be a great soil additive in gardens!

[righttackle44]

Oh, PUMICE. And not pumas. Okay.

[P.O.E.]

Source: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/13/rock-formation-bigger-than-connecticut-found-floating-in-pacific/

[InvisibleChurch]

Caddyshack (1980)
Sandy: I want you to kill every gopher on the course!
Carl Spackler: Check me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key...
Sandy: Gophers, ya great git! The gophers! The little brown furry rodents!
Carl Spackler: We can do that; we don’t even have to have a reason.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, dust my pumice!

[American Constitutionalist]

Wonder if there is any commercial value of this stuff ?
Tell the environmentalist that it's helping to clean up the environment and at the same time make a profit.
There has got to be some kind of commercial value of this stuff.
Lava Rock ? landscaping material ? heated rock spa material ? crush it up and use it in cement ? mix it in with asphalt, stones and path roads with it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

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[American Constitutionalist]

" marvelous,...how can this happen? "

Mega Earth molten rock pimple ? Earth molten rock diarrhea ?

[American Constitutionalist]

Not good at math or the science, but, how many mega tons of this stuff be at 10,000 sq miles of this stuff ?
If used for commercial purposes won't have to mine this stuff out of the ground, scoop it up from the water from a ship or used huge vacuums to scoop it up.
That's the size of either the state of Vermont or Massachusetts.

[Boogieman]

Pumice floats on water because the rock has so many air pockets trapped inside it. So, a really big volcano must have erupted underwater, and all the pumice just floated up.

[Boogieman]

Lots of commercial applications, like lava soap, abrasives, hydroponic medium, aquarium fill.

[American Constitutionalist]

Like Dremel grinding stones ? oxy stones for fish tanks ?

[American Constitutionalist]

Would be nice if some of that some has Gold, Copper, or other precious metals mixed in with the lava rock.

[ken5050]

Well, we finally have the answer to what happened to Amelia Aerhart. A simialr eruption occured beofre her flight, and when they were lost and almost out of gas, they looked down, saw thus stuff thought it was land, and tried to land on it...oopsie..

[ken5050]

Well, we finally have the answer to what happened to Amelia Aerhart. A simialr eruption occured beofre her flight, and when they were lost and almost out of gas, they looked down, saw this stuff thought it was land, and tried to land on it...oopsie..

[Boogieman]

I’m not sure about the dremel bit, it’s a light abrasive, so it’s used in stuff like polishes, toothpaste, facial scrubs, nail files, etc.

For aquariums, they are not used like oxy stones, but as landscaping (aquascaping?). They’ve got to be treated first to remove the oxygen pockets, so they don’t float, but they are lightweight and very porous, so they don’t put pressure on the tank and they can host lots of bacteria.