Earth's Biggest Volcano Discovered

The University of Houston geophysicist and his group advertised that Tamu Massif, a submerged well of lava around a third of the route from Japan to Hawaii, is by a wide margin the biggest fountain of liquid magma on the planet.


For two decades, utilizing sonar and other undersea mapping techniques, Sager has been considering a maritime level in the northwestern Pacific called Shatsky Rise. Over a few endeavors, he started to suspect that the unpretentiously vault formed development at Shatsky's south end, which he named Tamu Massif, may be a colossal spring of gushing lava.

To affirm his hypothesis, Sager's group penetrated center examples and skiped seismic waves through Tamu's layers to focus its sythesis. They found Tamu's 120,000 square miles were made of monstrous magma sheets, up to 75 feet thick, that had emitted from a solitary summit around 145 million years back.

In square miles, Tamu Massif is bigger than Arizona. Its single summit diminutive people multi-spring of gushing lava edifices, otherwise called composite volcanoes, on Hawaii and Iceland. With 75 percent of the volume of Mars' tremendous Olympus Mons, Tamu positions as the second-biggest known spring of gushing lava in the earth's planetary group.

Sager trusts its conceivable that we might one day discover much more noteworthy volcanic monsters underneath the waves. Until further notice, notwithstanding, he is appreciating a sweet minute 20 years really taking shape.

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