Please share / forward / comment / subscribe. Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: Evidence of the volcano came as an unintended bonus from a research plan to investigate why a massive ice sheet, known as the Larsen B, collapsed and broke up several years ago. Scientists hope to understand whether such a collapse is unique or part of a cycle that extends over hundreds of thousands of years. Hmmm? I wonder if this has anything to do with the ice sheets breaking off and falling into the ocean? I researched and found this: From: www.antarticconnection.com Is it global warming or just a natural occurence? Please comment. Its something to think about! PARIS (AFP) – Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday. The eruptions — as big as the one that buried Pompei — took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1800 kilometres (1100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia. Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these volcanic spasms. But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4000 meters (13000 feet) beneath the Arctic pack ice, they were astonished. What they saw was unmistakable evidence of