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Huge pillow lava is lifted from the seafloor.

Huge pillow lava is lifted from the seafloor.
Huge pillow lava is lifted from the seafloor.
Huge pillow lava is lifted from the seafloor.
Huge pillow lava is lifted from the seafloor.
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Fornari, Daniel
Huge pillow lava is lifted from the seafloor.
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10/18/2010
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, vol. 49, no. 3, 54:
In 2010, Karen Harpp of Colgate University led a multi-institutional expedition off the Galápagos Islands to explore seafloor volcanism. To collect seafloor rock samples, scientists cast a dredge on a cable into the deep. Somehow, the cable snagged a huge pillow lava in a nook between two bulbous lobes and wrenched it up from the seafloor.
Photo by Dan Fornari
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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