RPI researchers were the first to ever collect data during an underwater eruption on the Mid Ocean Ridge System. They happened to be on site to gather data from hydrothermal vents.

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The Boring Volcanic Field consists of 80 known volcanic vents. More vents likely exist but were buried by the Missoula floods about 15,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.