The Volcanoes
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Below Us!
[.ccording to a new chart of Pacific being prepared by the sian Institute of Oceano )hy based on its own explora s and those of other ntries in recent years, there some 10,000 volcanoes under ?r and on land in the ific. These volcanoes, active of various ages explain why Pacific is regarded as the ? of biggest earthquakes, resumably these discoveries ? made during the IGY k in the Pacific by ships of nations, which also revealed the Pacific Ocean is cut by essions from 1,200 to 1,800 s long and from six to seven s deep. has been established that ? are immense mineral re ces at the bottom of the fic, especially vast deposits of ganese, nickel, tungsten, iron the “rare element” thallium.