Chapter 893: The Prototype of the Island
After more than 10 hours of high-speed sailing, the "Princess Belle" finally reached the designated sea area.
It's still 300 kilometers from the craters that erupt on the outskirts of the Great Tamu volcano, but even here, the 60-meter-long Princess Belle is still rocked by violent storms.
In the sky, there were black clouds, because at this time the clouds already contained a large amount of volcanic ash, making the clouds that should have been white turn gray-black.
These clouds are not yet noticeable from below, but if you look down from space, you will definitely see a spectacular gray-black cyclone over the Pacific Northwest.
However, it is precisely because of this cyclone cloud that the ash from the crater in the center does not spread too far. After all, this eruption is not a full-scale eruption, but a controlled eruption under the control of Tang Feng, so on the surface, it seems that the eruption of the Great Tamu Volcano is very violent, but in fact, the eruption of the Great Tamu Volcano is not as violent as imagined.
If we talk about the volcanic eruption index level, the eruptions of the outer craters are VEI-5, and the eruptions of the middle craters can be regarded as VEI-4 at most. The main reason is that there are too many volcanic craters erupting outward, more than 60 craters erupting outward, and there is no way to measure the eruption index at present, so people can only infer it by sight, so this is a misunderstanding.
In fact, given the size of the Great Tamu Volcano, if this big thing really erupts, a mere cyclone of a tropical storm will not be able to stop the eruption of volcanic ash. Based on the power of the eruption of the Great Tamu Volcano, it is estimated that it will only take a few minutes for the huge heat to disperse all the cyclones above. Then the eruption of the ash column can reach at least the middle layer of the atmosphere and even the ionosphere
But now, because the power of the eruption is limited, most of the volcanic ash that erupts is blocked by this tropical storm cyclone, which Tang Feng did not expect in advance.
Volcanic ash is extremely destructive, and if it is allowed to drift out, the impact on human beings will be quite large. But this time it was crooked. Tang Feng originally wanted to use the cover of extreme weather to achieve his purpose of landing, but he did not expect that this tropical storm cyclone would also have the effect of neutralizing and separating volcanic ash.
In fact, volcanic ash is no different from dust, and we all know that how to collect dust in places where the storm grows? Sprinkle water! In the same way, this tropical storm cyclone, which covers tens of thousands of square kilometers, has nothing else in it, but a lot of water. When tropical storms and typhoons come, they are often accompanied by violent storms? That's because the whole cyclone contains a lot of water vapor.
And the eruption of volcanic ash, if there is no cloud above to block it. Then it will be directly blown in all directions by the strong winds in the sky, causing catastrophic consequences to local areas. And if enough volcanic ash erupts, it can even affect the global climate.
The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 is a prime example of this, because a large amount of ash was scattered in the atmosphere, blocking a large amount of solar radiation, causing the global average temperature to drop by 0.53 degrees, resulting in a year without summer in the world the following year
It's good now, what should Tang Feng do if he still has a headache about these volcanic ashes. As a result, a single tropical storm cleared most of the ash, which is a good example of what happened.
In fact, the dozens of craters on the periphery of the Great Tamu Volcano are blocked by more than 2,000 meters of water. So apart from the heat, nothing else can be sprayed out of the water at all. Tang Feng was mainly worried about the eruption of the more than a dozen volcanic craters in the center. Because for that island to form an island that meets Tang's wishes, it must be exposed to the surface and continue to erupt. Without the barrier of seawater, the large amount of volcanic ash emitted will have a huge impact on the atmosphere.
Now with the existence of this tropical storm cyclone, Tang Feng does not have to worry about the volcanic ash that erupts.
Under the control of the star core, the more than a dozen craters in the center of the Great Tamu Volcano erupted continuously. The erupted magma flowed in all directions, was rapidly cooled by the seawater, and then rapidly condensed in an area of about 200 square kilometers surrounded by more than a dozen craters, causing the area to rapidly grow above the water's surface.
More than 20 hours after Tang Feng arrived at the designated sea area, the island, which was basically circular, finally came out of the water.
Of course. In this situation, except for Tang Feng, no one else on the earth could not find that the island had been exposed. After more than 20 hours, although the tropical storm also moved a certain distance, the sea area was still covered by thick clouds, so that satellites in outer space could not see the situation under the clouds at all. As for the high-altitude reconnaissance plane, not to mention, under such circumstances, it is estimated that no country's high-altitude reconnaissance plane dares to dangle above this sea area.
And those research ships are staying in an area more than 300 kilometers away from the center, and the eruption of those craters on the periphery of the Great Tamu Volcano is not a joke, and no research ship dares to pass through the already boiling sea.
There was still a black rainstorm in the sky, and that was because of the volcanic ash.
Tang Feng was a little excited in his heart, he had been busy for more than half a year, and now it was time to collect the results.
The island is basically a circle, and because there are more than a dozen volcanic craters around it, it is about 150 meters higher than the middle. In other words, the edge of the entire island, or coastline, is surrounded by mountains that are more than 150 meters above sea level, and in the middle of this circle of mountains is the plain area with a radius of about 8 kilometers.
Of course, the first to emerge from the water were those islands, and it would take more than a day for the middle area to be able to fully emerge from the water, so Tang Feng still needed to wait patiently for a while.
However, not all of the islands are surrounded by a ring of mountains, in the east of the island, Tang Feng deliberately opened a hole with a width of about 200 meters, and inside the mouth is a lagoon with a depth of more than 30 meters and a radius of about one kilometer.
This island will be an important base for Tang Feng in the future, if it is all surrounded by mountains, how can large ships dock? Once the island is fully formed, then this lagoon is an excellent deep harbor, and when the time comes, the port on the island can be set up around the lagoon, so that those large ships can enter the harbor and dock.
And because the lagoon is shaped with a small mouth and a large belly, the opening into the lagoon is also more than 300 meters long, so it can make this lagoon an excellent shelter from storms. Even if there is a typhoon passing by outside the island, the inside of this lagoon is still undisturbed
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