Scientists Found a 'Yellow Brick Road' at The Bottom of The Ocean
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Key Points:
- In 2022, the exploration vessel Nautilus discovered an ancient dried-up lakebed with a yellow brick road-like formation on the Liliʻuokalani ridge in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, located over 3,000 meters underwater north of the Hawaiian Islands.
- The "yellow brick road" consists of fractured hyaloclastite volcanic rock, with unique 90-degree fractures likely caused by heating and cooling stresses from multiple eruptions, giving the appearance of bricks.
- The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is one of the largest marine conservation areas globally, yet only about 3 percent of its seafloor has been explored, highlighting how much of the ocean floor
