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Floating Pumice Trail in the Pacific
August 19, 2012 | NASA Earth Observatory

“The Havre Seamount volcano erupted a tightly-packed raft of floating pumice on July 19 and 20, 2012. Over the next several weeks, wind and waves dispersed the pumice among the remote Kermadec Islands, northeast of New Zealand. These satellite images show the spread of the pumice.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory image release.


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