Ocean Floor Witnessed Splitting Apart for the First Time — Releasing Lava
Researchers tracked a sudden seafloor rupture that released about 160 million cubic metres of lava and shifted oceanic crust by at least 2 metres.
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Scientists witness first-ever seafloor spreading event as 160 million cubic metres of lava create new ocean floor
Science News: For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists could map ancient scars on th.
A French research team made the first observation of a moment of creation of the ocean floor. It tells in "Nature" how 160 million cubic meters of magma spread in 16 days in the south of the Indian Ocean, in 2024.
Thanks to measuring instruments at a depth of nearly 2,000 metres off Amsterdam Island, a French team was able to follow this phenomenon on 26 April 2024. Geophysicists found that the abyssal floor had been extended in a few days from 2 to 4 metres.
Large and small pieces of the Earth's crust are constantly in motion. Geophysicists have now seen live how such plate tectonics works. "Sometimes you get a gift."
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