DISCUSSION: The elusive Cook volcano and other submarine forearc volcanoes in the Solomon Islands

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

Discussion: A recent paper (Ex on and Johnson, 1986) in this journal concluded that activity attributed in the past to the Cook submarine volcano, in the forearc region of the New Georgia Group of the Solomon Islands, was probably largely hydrothermal blowouts from a sea floor vent (or vents) 1300 m below sea level, rather than volcanic activity.

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Title DISCUSSION: The elusive Cook volcano and other submarine forearc volcanoes in the Solomon Islands
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2131b4bd-d374-47d3-83d1-d9b317cf869c
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "DISCUSSION: The elusive Cook volcano and other submarine forearc volcanoes in the Solomon Islands". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
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