Big Picture Science – What Lies Beneath: William Sager / Tamu Massif

by Gary Niederhoff on August 31, 2015

What Lies Beneath / Tamu Massif
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Part 2 of What Lies Beneath, featuring William Sager, marine geophysicist in the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston, discussing the discovery of Tamu Massif, the largest volcano in the world, located at the bottom of the Pacific just east of Japan.

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