Sentences with phrase «axial volcano»

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Axial Volcano rises 0.7 miles off the seafloor some 300 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, and its peak lies about 0.85 miles below the ocean's surface.

A seismic instrument (long black cylinder, right) installed in 2013 on a level triangular metal plate on the seafloor atop Axial Volcano.

«Axial volcano has had at least three eruptions, that we know of, over the past 20 years,» said Rick Murray, director of the NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which also funded the research.

When lava from Axial Volcano covered older flows on the seafloor (above), there was an eruption of life.

Not exact matches

Scientists have successfully forecast the latest eruption of Axial Seamount, an active submarine volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon.

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting — after two scientists had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.

«Undersea volcano: Axial Seamount off Northwest coast is erupting.»

The second spot was Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano, along with its associated hydrothermal vents, where the team could study the transfer of minerals from beneath the seafloor into the water and access hardy microbes that thrive in the vent fluids, which can reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

The instruments on the sides of Axial that measured current could have supported the squeezed - sponge model if they had measured a strong flow of water back toward the volcano to replace the expelled fluids.

But in recent years researchers have learned how to place sensors on or near volcanoes like Axial.