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Figure F30. Multibeam bathymetric map of seafloor around Island of Surtsey off the south coast of Iceland, showing large submarine lobes of volcaniclastic debris that built up during the formation of the island. Site U1374 is probably located on a similar but larger lobe of volcaniclastic debris that built up around Rigil Guyot. From Jakobsson et al. (2009).

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