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OF what happens in submarine eruptions we naturally know little. The evidence of Graham's Island (1831)2 and the eruption off Pantelleria (1891), to the south of Sicily, and of the damaged telegraph cables and various surface phenomena3 to the north, towards the Lipari Isles, shows us that such eruptions are not rare in the Sicilian district, and any records of these fleeting occurrences that we can get, in the way of observation and specimens, may well prove of increasing interest as others are obtained to compare with them.
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BUTLER, G. Abstract of Mr. A. Ricco's Account of the Submarine Eruption North-west of Pantelleria, October 18911. Nature 45, 584–585 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045584a0
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