World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born
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An international team deployed the OHA-GEODAMS underwater observatory at the Southeast Indian Ridge in February 2024 and captured, for the first time in human history, the violent seafloor spreading event in April 2024 when 150 million cubic meters of magma was injected into Earth's oceanic crust in less than two hours, with researchers measuring several meters of seafloor displacement recorded in Nature.
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