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Volcano The Size Of Oregon Discovered Under The Pacific

By C. J. Refsland on September 6, 2013 • ( 1 )

A giant volcano that covers the same area as the whole of the UK has been discovered buried deep beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Tamu Massif sits 1,000 miles east of Japan, along the Shatsky Rise plate, its tip is 6,500 feet below the ocean surface and it stretches around 400 miles wide.
After studying rock samples, scientists from the University of Houston believe the behemoth is the volcano that caused the underwater Shatsky Rise mountain range to form between 130 and 145 million years ago and may be the largest volcano in the solar system – even wider than the giant Olympus Mons volcano on Mars.

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