A map of pumice drift from the 2012 eruption of the Havre seamount 180 days after the eruption. A computer model could help track rafts of floating rock in the ocean, perhaps giving scientists a way ...

It’s true — some rocks can float on water for years at a time. And now scientists know how they do it, and what causes them to eventually sink. X-ray studies at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...

A new technique will aid in predicting the dispersal and drift patterns of large floating ‘islands’ of pumice created by volcanic eruptions at sea. Known as pumice rafts, these large mobile ...

Figure 1: Sequential motion of pumice rafts from MODIS images in the first 3 weeks after the eruption. Figure 2: MODIS satellite images of the pumice raft from the July 2012 Havre submarine eruption.

Midway on its 800-kilometer voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand, the HMNZS Canterbury received an intriguing report: a maritime patrol aircraft had spotted a vast area of open ocean ...

Midway on its 800-kilometer (500-mile) voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand, the HMNZS Canterbury received an intriguing report: a maritime patrol aircraft had spotted a vast area of open ...

A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The first thing the sailors noticed was the smell of sulfur. Then, Larissa Brill and Michael Hoult, a couple sailing in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, saw it: a floating mass ...

“The rubble slick went as far as we could see in the moonlight." London -- Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple ...