A Volcanic Eruption Unearthed a pair of Sunken Ships On Iwo Jima

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: A Volcanic Eruption Unearthed a pair of Sunken Ships On Iwo Jima | Boing Boing

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[Goryokaku]

Ah yes, there’s always strange stuff at the bottom of those seas. No sea monsters/princesses sighted?

[Mister44]

Neat. Any mention of Iwo Jima deserves Johnny Cash’s Ballad of Ira Hayes to be shared.

The Ballad of Ira Hayes

[Stevo_Pusser]

Ummm…no. Iwo Jima has been rising astoundingly rapidly in geologic terms for many years as the magma chamber beneath it inflates. I don’t see how the construction of a short-lived scoria edifice on another volcano has anything to do with Iwo Jima’s rising–an actual eruption would bury those ships beneath volcanic debris, not expose them. If IJ does have a massive caldera-forming eruption again, as it has in the past, the effects on Japan would be dire.

Or it’s just that the stars are right.

[MerelyGifted]

As long as there’s no

involved…