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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Alasdair Ferguson

Scotland's volcanic landscape mystery solved by scientists with 'extraordinary' find

THE volcanic landscape that formed the Inner Hebrides once rivalled the explosive volcano hotspot of modern-day Hawaii, scientists have discovered. 

In an “extraordinarily significant find,” geologists from the University of Aberdeen have been able to settle a scientific debate dating back more than a century after discovering that the cracks in the Earth, called volcanic fissures, helped create much of the Inner Hebrides. 

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