Wōdejebato is an undersea volcanic mountain with a flat top (a guyot), and probably a shield volcano, in the northern Marshall Islands of the Pacific. Formed of basaltic rocks, it is connected through a 74-kilometre (46 mi) submarine ridge to the smaller Bikini Atoll to its southeast. Named for a sea god of Bikini, Wōdejebato rises 4,420 metres (14,500 ft) above the ocean floor, to within 1,335 metres (4,380 ft) of the surface. It was probably formed by a hotspot in present-day French Polynesia before being shifted by plate tectonics. A volcanic episode in the Late Cretaceous led to the formation of an island and a carbonate platform that disappeared below the sea. A second volcanic episode between 85 and 78.4 million years ago created an island that was eventually eroded, generating an atoll or atoll-like structure that covered the former island with carbonates. The second carbonate platform drowned about 68 million years ago.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1933:

A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Banneux

1991:

Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia

2009:

US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

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field of vision: The area that a person, an animal, etc., can see with its eyes (or each eye individually) without turning the head. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/field_of_vision

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.   --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon