Dienstag, 29. November 2011

Indian Ocean cocktail party leaves trail of party hats behind

The German-Australian team of marine geologists set out on the German research vessel Sonne to map and sample about 60 seamounts - ranging in height from one to three kilometers - in one the world's largest volcanic seamount provinces off the north-west Australian coast.
"These particular seamounts lie in a 200 kilometre-thick band almost parallel to the equator," said Dietmar Müller, a professor of geophysics from the University of Sydney and senior member of the team, which has just

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