EARTH
Giant Volcano Rewrites the Story of Seafloor Formation
Tamu Massif and dozens of other seafloor volcanoes formed like sheet cakes, not layer cakes
is a professor of geophysics at the University of Houston. He has sailed on 46 oceanographic expeditions and gave the Tamu Massif volcano its name. Credit: Nick Higgins
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