Pumice Rafts facts
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Pumice can form free-floating rafts so large that they can be mistaken for islands and that animals can migrate between landmasses on them.
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Human skeletons were found floating on rafts of volcanic pumice on the Indian ocean a year after the Krakatoa eruption of 1883
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Large masses of floating pumice are able to be tracked by satellites and are referred to as "pumice rafts." They can be a hazard to ships that sail through them.
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Pumice is an extremely porous type of volcanic rock and can actually float on water. Giant rafts of this floating rock can occur after volcanic eruptions and some biologists suggest that animals and plants have migrated from island to island on pumice rafts.
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In August 2006, the crew of the yacht Maiken, sailing out of the Vava'u island group, encountered a remarkable "stone sea." The phenomena they spotted were a series of pumice rafts resulting from a nearby eruption, one that was forming a new volcanic island in Tonga.
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Pumice Rafts; voluminous floating pieces of volcanic rock, some up to 300mi (480km) long, and they may have had an influence in the distribution of mammalian life, island to island!
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The 2012 Kermadec Islands eruption created a 300 mile (480km) by 30mile (4km) floating "island" of pumice, known as a pumice raft.
