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Related: About this forumVast volcanic 'raft' found in Pacific, near New Zealand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19207810A navy officer described the floating spectacle as the "weirdest thing" he had seen at sea
A vast "raft" of volcanic rocks covering 10,000 sq miles (26,000 sq km) of ocean has been spotted by a New Zealand military aircraft.
A naval ship was forced to change course in order to avoid the cluster of buoyant rocks, located 1,000 miles off the New Zealand coast.
The unusual phenomenon was probably the result of pumice being released from an underwater volcano, experts said.
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Vast volcanic 'raft' found in Pacific, near New Zealand (Original Post)
xchrom
Aug 2012
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Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)1. a similar thing happened when el Hierro went off last year
they called them 'restolingas'. Hot rocks (at night you can see the glow) rising from the volcanic vent, cooling and expanding and sending out white trails of gas. The ones in the Canaries are composed of heavier rock so they mostly end up sinking once they cool off, but some of the earlier ones did wash up on the shore.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. Thanks, learning a lot here.
StrictlyRockers
(3,854 posts)3. Volcanos have floaters?
Who knew?
Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)4. Icebergs weren't bad enough, now we get rockbergs? nt
xchrom
(108,903 posts)5. It's always something. Nt