Birth of two volcanic islands in the southern Red Sea

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Xu, Wenbin, Ruch, Joël, Jónsson, Sigurjón
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Pub. Group 2015
• Subjects: Article; Surtsey; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455101/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26010945; https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8104

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...