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has risen from the volcanic ashes of the Ring of Fire – this time off the coast of Japan's Ogasawara Islands, a far-flung archipelago also known as the
that the underwater volcanic eruption that formed the island started as a"vertical jet" of solidified magma that shot high above the waves.As all that debris fell back into the ocean as lava, mixed with a porous, low-density material called pumice, the mound of rock built until it was high enough to peek out of the depths like a periscope.
Its new neighbor lies just over a kilometer off the coast, and while the fresh pumice rock does not sit far above the water line, as of Friday, it stretched about two kilometers in diameter.
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Underwater volcanic eruption gives birth to new island in the PacificSascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe.
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