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Extra-firm Pillow

This cross-section of a pillow lava shows pockets of whitish carbonate trapped within, suggesting that seafloor sediments might have been folded into the lava as it erupted. The sample is one of the largest intact pieces of seafloor lava ever recovered and was dredged from the seafloor north of the Galápagos Islands during a spring…

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