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1-11-2008 6:40 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8649e31-b770-4cb6-b7e6-6f49e80ebe5f/96D4AC2D-D36F-48B3-B736-B6242A6790FD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1" href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.oregonlive.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">For the past three years, the researchers have journeyed to
the Antarctic to deploy hydrophones designed and built at
this tiny science center on Newport's Yaquina Bay</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">Earthquakes and magma spewing on the seafloor
go hand in hand, and what we are seeing is, there are new
heat sources right off the coast of Deception Island that no
one was aware of before</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">It's the only place on the planet where active
seafloor and subaerial (above sea level) volcanoes are near
large icebergs and ice sheets.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">the team's studies lead to new information
about how the seafloor volcanoes and earthquakes contribute
to the breakup of ice in the region</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">If it wasn't for our work, these deep-sea
eruptions would be completely unknown</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">three-quarters of the Earth is covered by ocean,
the vast majority of volcanic activity on Earth is occurring
without our knowledge undersea</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1199514313113650.xml&coll=7&thispage=1">So it's unknown
how much heat and chemicals the underwater volcanoes spew
into the ocean and atmosphere, affecting global ocean
temperatures and climat</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/96D4AC2D-D36F-48B3-B736-B6242A6790FD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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