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A giant raft of floating rock is not all that uncommon ... who is leading the recovery and analysis of the pumice at the Queensland University of Technology. The rocks — some no larger than ...
A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting ... Scott Bryan, a professor at Queensland University of Technology specializing in geology and geochemistry, said the ...
A mass of floating rock from a volcanic explosion underwater ... on the Great Barrier Reef,” Professor Scott Bryan of the Queensland University of Technology said in a statement.
A raft of rock, the size of 20,000 football fields is floating towards Queensland. The pumice was created when an underwater volcano erupted off Tonga. Scientists say it'll bring millions of new ...
The couple have since cleared all sign of volcanic rock and continued to Fiji. They have provided pumice samples and details of their encounter to Queensland University of Technology geologist ...
The couple had sailed upon what scientists call a “pumice raft,” a mass of floating, porous rock that forms when ... a geologist and associate professor at Queensland University of Technology ...
Shining a light into the darkness surrounding the vessel, they saw a bizarre sight - floating rock as far as the light ... Pumice washed up on beaches in Queensland in 2013 following the 2012 ...
The pumice stone raft was bigger than Paris when floating in the ocean and it's ferried lots of marine organisms to Queensland beaches ... thoughts on the volcanic rock raft?
The large, dark and remarkably light aerated stones were scattered along the high tide mark yesterday and Surf Life Saving ... Bryan said the volcanic rock had been floating around the ocean ...