Carbon dioxide bubbling up from underground material can solidify into formations of up to five metres tall.
A mound of a strange solid form of carbon dioxide and water sits on volcanic sand at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Credit: C. Cathalot et al./Nature Geosci. (CC-BY-4.0)
Bizarre, ice-like domes made of carbon dioxide and water dot the sea floor in one part of the Indian Ocean1.
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