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		Trouble_007 on Oct 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped Remembering that the Ocean floor topography is not fixed. 'new island formed' A new island is forming in the Pacific Ocean after an underwater volcanic eruption : https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-island-pacific-ocean-volcan... List of new Islands : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_islands

hinkley on Oct 17, 2022 [–]

Last I heard we're due a new Hawaiian island in about 5 thousand years. Loihi is still almost a kilometer down and slowly climbing.

Edit: seems like the first reservations are in 50,000 years, not 5000

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