Underwater Volcanoes - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Apr 14, 2010 · Underwater acoustics expert Gil Averbuch teases apart a mystery. Five hundred meters below the calm surface waters of the Aegean Sea off Santorini Island, Greece, lies an active submarine volcano. There, a decision-making robot equipped with artificial intelligence searches for life and danger.
Underwater Volcanoes - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Submarine lava flows and their associated narrow feeder conduits known as dikes constitute the basic building blocks of the upper part of the ocean crust. We are only beginning to understand how lava erupts and forms on the seafloor by flooding topographic lows, flowing through channels or tubes, centralizing into volcanoes, or some combination ...
New Underwater Volcano Found Near Samoa – Woods Hole …
May 25, 2005 · An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Oregon and University of Sydney, has discovered an active underwater volcano near the Samoan Island chain about 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii. During a research cruise to study the Samoan…
Seismometer Deployed Atop Underwater Volcano
Sep 30, 2007 · Seismometer Deployed Atop Underwater Volcano. A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution installed a novel underwater earthquake-monitoring system atop Kick’em Jenny, an active volcano just off the north coast of Grenada in the Caribbean Sea. The new Real Time Offshore Seismic Station—deployed May 6, 2007, and being tested for ...
Scientists Find Active Underwater Volcano East of Samoa
May 16, 2000. Marine geologists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) have confirmed the existence of an active underwater volcano east of Samoa. The volcano, recently named Vailulu’u by local students, is located about 28 miles east of Ta’u Island and rises more than 16,400 ...
Ocean Robots: Underwater Volcano - Woods Hole Oceanographic …
Ocean Robots: Underwater Volcano. In 2009, oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. TOPICS: Seafloor & Below / Underwater Volcanoes / Underwater Vehicles.
Lava Flows - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
What is Lava? When a volcano erupts, the molten rock (or magma) that comes out of the Earth is called lava. Because lava is so hot (more than 1,100 degrees C, over 2,000 degrees F), it remains molten and flows across the ground until it cools and hardens into rock. Lava is the most common form of material erupted from volcanoes that form ...
Racing an undersea volcano - Woods Hole Oceanographic …
Mar 18, 2021 · Racing an undersea volcano. Scientists hurry to map the seafloor before the next volcanic eruption at the East Pacific Rise. In April 2021, WHOI scientist Dan Fornari and a team of collaborators and students returned to the East Pacific Rise at 9°50' North to complete a map of an undersea volcano that they believe will erupt within the next ...
Ocean Robots :: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Underwater Volcano ROV Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. More »
Mid-ocean Ridges - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nov 10, 2020 · The mid-ocean ridge is a continuous range of undersea volcanic mountains that encircles the globe almost entirely underwater. It is a central feature of seafloor terrain that is more varied and more spectacular than almost anything found on dry land, and includes a collection of volcanic ridges, rifts, fault zones, and other geologic features.