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Fire Under Arctic Ice Friday, June 27, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Environment   
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A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented rock--known as pyroclastic deposits - were not thought possible at great ocean depths because of the intense weight and pressure of water and because of the composition of seafloor magma and rock. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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