Under Ocean Volcanoes Warming Water

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[beyond the sea]

Under Ocean Volcanoes Warming Water (Global Warming)

(snips) A few reports on this ongoing phenomenon:

Underwater Volcanoes Erupting Simultaneously All Over the World - March 14, 2005 -

Hundreds of underwater volcanoes are erupting all over the world, especially around the Ring of Fire, reports the India Daily.

Underwater volcanoes are erupting in Australia, Greece, New Zealand and many other countries including the American Northwest, which is experiencing an unprecedented level of underwater volcanism. Andaman Nicobar Island is experiencing underwater volcanism in both the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.

Tectonic movements have gone up by several folds in the last nine months, say geologists, so much so that they don’t have enough monitoring mechanisms to keep track.

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1904.asp

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More than 4,300 undersea earthquakes in five days!

- March 7, 2005 – "It might be a volcanic eruption or a magma event on the ridge," said Garry Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in Vancouver , B.C. "These earthquake swarms are associated with sea floor spreading [underwater volcanic activity]," said Robert P. Dziak, an oceanographer at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon.

The undersea quakes, about a mile-and-a-half below the ocean surface, weren’t large enough to trigger a tsunami, so the experts advise us not to worry.

I hope they’re correct, but if there’s a tremendous amount of magma pouring into the ocean I think we have a problem. The magma could be as much as 2,150 degrees Fahrenheit - 10 times the boiling point – which could lead to much warmer seas and thence to an ice age.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=6420&slu g=CAN%20Undersea%20Quakes

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Underwater volcano found off Antarctic coast. May 21, 2004. The National Science Foundation announced yesterday that a previously unknown underwater volcano has been discovered in an area known as the Antarctic Sound at the northernmost tip of Antarctica. Dredges on the research vessel Lawrence M. Gould “recovered abundant fresh basalt.” Although large areas of the volcano were colonized by submarine life, none was found around the volcano itself, indicating that lava had flowed fairly recently. Temperature probes showed signs of geothermal heating of seawater. http://www.nsf.gov/home/news.html#story1

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Underwater volcanic activity in the Arctic Ocean far stronger than anyone imagined.

(Snip) – German-American researchers have discovered more hydrothermal activity at the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean than anyone ever imagined.

"The Gakkel ridge is a gigantic volcanic mountain chain stretching beneath the Arctic Ocean. With its deep valleys 5,500 meters beneath the sea surface and its 5,000 meter- high summits, Gakkel ridge is far mightier than the Alps."

Two research icebreakers, the "USCGC Healy" from USA and the German "PFS Polarstern," recently joined forces in the international expedition AMORE (Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Expedition). In attendance were scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and other international institutions.

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Popping rocks reveal multiple underwater volcanoes off northern Mexico – 27 Oct 2005 - “Noisy popping rocks hauled up from the deep Pacific seafloor off northern Mexico appear to be from a very young undersea volcano, say U.S. and Mexican geologists.

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Underwater volcanoes pose tsunami threat – July 28, 2005 – Seventy five previously unknown underwater volcanoes between New Zealand and Tonga pose a tsunami threat, warns Australian geologist Professor Richard Arculus.

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Underwater volcano erupting 700 miles SE of Tokyo - July 3, 2005 - The coast guard sent helicopters to monitor a huge column of steam more than half-a-mile wide rising above the Pacific Ocean southeast of Tokyo, and warned ships to stay away. The water in the area was brick-red.

"It's highly likely that it's caused by an eruption of an underwater volcano," coast guard spokesman Shigeyuki Sato said.

"We suspect the undersea volcanic moves are becoming active," said another coast guard official.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4646185.stm

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Underwater volcano grows 1,000 feet in four years – May 25, 2005 - On an expedition to observe the Vailulu'u Volcano, an underwater volcano discovered in 1999 near American Samoa, scientists saw another volcano growing out of the first, like the island in the middle of Crater Lake .

Scientists dubbed the new volcano, about 20 miles (32 km) east of the island of Ta'u , Nafanua after the Samoan goddess of war. Growing at a rate of about 8 inches (20 cm) a day, Nafanua measured nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) high. It could go much higher, said geologist Hubert Staudigel from the University of California at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The scientists were so amazed to find eels living in the newly formed lava that they nicknamed the population "Eel City." (Knowing that the temperature of the basalt should be around 2150 degrees Fahrenheit, I wonder why don’t we see any comments about how much heat underwater volcanoes must be pouring into the seas?)

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7984261/?GT1=6542

[beyond the sea]

There certainly ia a lot going on down there.

We know more about outer space than the depths of the oceans.

[SauronOfMordor]

The warming effect of underwater volcanoes on ocean temps is insignificant compared to the effect of sunlight on the water