Sholan and Jadid are the two new Yemeni islands Zubair archipelago that emerged in the middle of the Red Sea because of volcanic eruptions in the area in 2011 and 2013, reports ‘Nature Communications’.
So far the mechanism of formation of these two volcanic islands, such as those that emerge near the ocean ridges, there was little known by scientists.
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But geologists from the University of Science and Technology King Abdullah inquired that Sholan and Jadid had arisen during the initial phase of eruption. Besides the eruption coincided with a series of earthquakes in the ocean, so Zubair archipelago could be considered as a new area of volcanic activity, previously unknown.
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