3D scans show underwater volcano off Oregon coast could explode without notice

Source: https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-12-12-3d-scans-show-underwater-volcano-off-oregon-coast-could-explode.html
Published: Dec 13, 2019
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Post Date: 2019-12-13 10:32:15 by Horse
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Scientists have finished their first 3D scan of an underwater volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon with a base the size of Austin and a main magma reservoir approximately two-thirds of the length of Manhattan.

Dubbed Axial Seamount, the “deep-sea magma monster” is the youngest in the Cobb-Eickelberg seamount chain, a 1,120-mile-long line of submarine volcanoes created by a stationary mantle plume below the shifting Pacific tectonic plate.

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