MBARI's seafloor maps provide new information about 2015 eruption at Axial Seamount

Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 17:21 in Earth & Climate

Axial Seamount, a large underwater volcano about 470 kilometers (290 miles) offshore of the Oregon coast, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world-and one of the most intensively studied. Three research papers, to be published this week, describe a large eruption on Axial Seamount that occurred in April 2015.

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