“Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano”

“Huge lake discovered 15 kilometres under a volcano”

 

Riou/Verne image
No quite like the subterranean oceans described in Jules Verne’s novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” perhaps, but still vast and unexpected.
(Wikimedia CC public domain original illustration by Édouard Riou)

 

This is surprising:

 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2111460-huge-lake-discovered-15-kilometres-under-a-volcano/

 

And it could have real implications for our understanding of how the earth was formed in the first place, of how water “arrived” here, and so forth.

 

 


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