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New eruption discovered in the Bismarck Sea

  • May 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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New eruption discovered in the Bismarck Sea
It's a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the moon and Mars than of the deep-ocean floor. That's especially true for the Bismarck Sea, a relatively deep body of water north of Papua New Guinea. It's an ocean basin with a geologically complex seafloor rife with faults, volcanic features, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones at depths that make high-resolution sonar mapping challenging.

Originally published at Phys.org

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