A volcano erupts in the black dark night on a remote part of the Planet. Thick plumes like black smoke are coming out from it. The terrain temperatures rise to 600 F̊ while it comes out from the magma blankets; deep cracks formed around the volcano and superheated water seeps from them.
Though the magma is deadly for the local habitat but they don’t evacuate the area. The water is hot but thousands are able to thrive in a seemingly hellish habitat.
This volcanic eruption that has been going on for weeks is not the typical volcanic activity. It’s happening at the deep-sea vent more than 8,000 feet below the surface of the ocean.
Deep-sea vents are given different names such as deepwater seeps, deep-sea springs, and hydrothermal vents. These vents are usually found at the bottom of the ocean and are created by volcanic and tectonic activity in the areas where huge hostile plates are converging or spreading apart. Magma ejects lava along the margins of these plates most of time slowly but some times with such ferocity that it creates instant lava lakes. The thick black smoke in fact is a plume of metal rich, superheated water billowing out of the silt and sediment covered gray and white under water volcano chimney.
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Palau a small group of islands in warm waters of Pacific Ocean, it haves planet Earth’s one of most richest and biologically diverse coral reefs. The marine biologists had recorded 700 species of corals and 1,500 species of fish.
The coral reefs of Palau grown millions of years back when coral polyps established a colony submerging the volcanic mountains. The tiny polyp’s material cemented them in place. They built side-by-side hard external skeletons around their soft bodies, and when they died the other corals built skeletons on top of them. The geological forces in sea raised the coral topped mountains above the sea while all the exposed corals died in meantime. But time-to-time new colonies built more reefs on the islands undersea slopes.
The coral gardens of Ngemelis Island where divers swim today shows the great artistic work of nature at top of this reef few feet below the surface coral reef looks like wild flowers swaying in the breeze and the soft coral trees and bushes seem to have been painted in extremely attractive shades of green, red, yellow, and orange.
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