Kilauea has been erupting above sea level for fifty thousand years, since before people arrived there, between the third and fifth century, and so the geology of the island is also its mythology.
Meyer, J. L. & Huber, J. A. Strain-level genomic variation in natural populations of Lebetimonas from an erupting deep-sea volcano.
Comparative genomic studies of Thiomicrospira from Lost City22, Pyrococcus furiosus from Vulcano Island23, and Lebetimonas from fluid venting at an actively erupting deep-sea volcano24 reveal extensive genome rearrangement, gene gain and loss, evidence of horizontal gene transfer, and abundant genomic islands.
Importantly, some of the lavas there had clearly reacted with ancient seawater, proving they had erupted at sea level.
Thank god we're not in a helicopter, I think to myself as the plane banks on its final approach and a cluster of snow-covered island-mountains erupting from the sea loom through the storm clouds.
The earliest clear depictions of the area were made of commercial buildings built after 1850; a lithograph of the old American Express warehouse on Jay from Hudson to Staple Streets around 1860 shows it erupting from a sea of Federal-style brick houses, each two or three stories with dormers.
One sketches an apocalyptic vision of methane erupting from the sea floor, forming vast clouds and exploding.
They suggested that long-term climate cycles could be modulating the amount of magma erupting on the sea floor.
For drama, you could place architectural plants such as Agave attenuata to appear as if they are erupting from a sea of gold.
State media released images of the leader grinning on a boat with the top of a submarine visible in the background, and of him pointing at what appeared to be a missile erupting from the sea.
