A phreatomagmatic eruption style specific to shallow underwater or emergent coastal volcanoes, in which seawater flooding into the vent repeatedly interacts with rising magma to produce violent, cypress-shaped ash and steam plumes. Named for the eruption that built the island of Surtsey off Iceland beginning in 1963, the style is often the first stage by which a submarine volcano breaches the surface to build new land.
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A Surtseyan eruption is a type of explosive eruption that takes place in shallow seas or lakes when rapidly rising and fragmenting hot magma interacts explosively with water and with water-steam-tephra slurries.
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