It’s hard to study primary succession, because bits of new land don’t just appear every day, but in 1963, Surtsey, a new volcanic island, emerged near Iceland and has been studied ever since as an example of colonisation and primary succession:
http://www.surtsey.is/index_eng.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey
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