Birth of two volcanic islands in the southern Red Sea
Submarine eruptions that lead to the formation of new volcanic islands are rare and far from being fully understood; only a few such eruptions have been witnessed since Surtsey Island emerged to the south of Iceland in the 1960s. Here we report on two new volcanic islands that were formed in the Zub...
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ftkingabdullahun:oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/556077 2023-12-31T10:08:18+01:00 Birth of two volcanic islands in the southern Red Sea Xu, Wenbin Ruch, Joel Jonsson, Sigurjon Crustal Deformation and InSAR Group Earth Science and Engineering Program Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division 2015-05-26 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10754/556077 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8104 unknown Springer Nature http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/ncomms8104 Birth of two volcanic islands in the southern Red Sea 2015, 6:7104 Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms8104 2041-1723 Nature Communications PMC4455101 26010945 http://hdl.handle.net/10754/556077 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Article 2015 ftkingabdullahun https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8104 2023-12-02T20:19:39Z Submarine eruptions that lead to the formation of new volcanic islands are rare and far from being fully understood; only a few such eruptions have been witnessed since Surtsey Island emerged to the south of Iceland in the 1960s. Here we report on two new volcanic islands that were formed in the Zubair archipelago of the southern Red Sea in 2011–2013. Using high-resolution optical satellite images, we find that the new islands grew rapidly during their initial eruptive phases and that coastal erosion significantly modified their shapes within months. Satellite radar data indicate that two north–south-oriented dykes, much longer than the small islands might suggest, fed the eruptions. These events occurred contemporaneously with several local earthquake swarms of the type that typically accompany magma intrusions. Earthquake activity has been affecting the southern Red Sea for decades, suggesting the presence of a magmatically active zone that has previously escaped notice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Surtsey King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: KAUST Repository Nature Communications 6 1 |
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Submarine eruptions that lead to the formation of new volcanic islands are rare and far from being fully understood; only a few such eruptions have been witnessed since Surtsey Island emerged to the south of Iceland in the 1960s. Here we report on two new volcanic islands that were formed in the Zubair archipelago of the southern Red Sea in 2011–2013. Using high-resolution optical satellite images, we find that the new islands grew rapidly during their initial eruptive phases and that coastal erosion significantly modified their shapes within months. Satellite radar data indicate that two north–south-oriented dykes, much longer than the small islands might suggest, fed the eruptions. These events occurred contemporaneously with several local earthquake swarms of the type that typically accompany magma intrusions. Earthquake activity has been affecting the southern Red Sea for decades, suggesting the presence of a magmatically active zone that has previously escaped notice. |
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