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Pumice arrives delivering “vitamin boost” to the reef – EurekAlert
The giant pumice raft created by an underwater volcanic eruption last August in Tonga has begun arriving on the Australian eastern seaboard, delivering millions of reef-building organisms that researchers say could be a ”vitamin boost” for the Great Barrier…
Associate Professor Scott Bryan, who has been studying the impact of pumice rafts for nearly 20 years, was part of an international team that earlier this year used underwater robots with cameras and sampling gear to collect material from the volcano near Tonga that produced the raft that at one stage was twice the size of Manhattan.
The unnamed volcano, which is known only as Volcano F or 0403-091, became the centre of international headlines last year when Shannon Lenz’s video footage of the …
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