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Line 5: Biologists suggest that animals and plants have [[Animal migration\|migrated]] from island to island on pumice rafts.<ref>[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=17605 New Island and Pumice Raft, Tonga], NASA Earth Observatory photo with commentary, August 2006</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Nunn\|first=Patrick D.\|title=Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific\|year=2008\|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press\|isbn=978-0-8248-3219-3\|page=59}}</ref> Due to their unique qualities of having the highest surface-area-to-volume ratio known for any rock type, their long term flotation and beaching in the tidal zone, their exposure to a variety of conditions, including dehydration, and finally their surface/subterranean remarkable ability to absorb many potentially advantageous elements/compounds [[Astrobiologist]]s have hypothetically ~~proposed~~linked pumice rafts as an ideal substrate for the [[Abiogenesis\|origin of life]].<ref>Martin D. Brasier, Richard Matthewman, Sean McMahon and David Wacey. "Pumice as a Remarkable Substrate for the Origin of Life" Astrobiology. August 31, 2011</ref>{{qualify evidence}} ==Notable examples==

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