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SUBMITTER: Jutzeler M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3997806 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20140422
Pumice rafts are floating mobile accumulations of low-density pumice clasts generated by silicic volcanic eruptions. Pumice in rafts can drift for years, become waterlogged and sink, or become stranded on shorelines. Here we show that the pumice raft formed by the impressive, deep submarine eruption of the Havre caldera volcano (Southwest Pacific) in July 2012 can be mapped by satellite imagery augmented by sailing crew observations. Far from coastal interference, the eruption produced a single ...[more]