Posts treating: "volcano"
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Continuing the story from the previous post,
I had a second chance to see a volcano in action in 2004. I was the
newly elected president of the Far West Section of the National
Association of Geoscience Teachers, and for my first conference, I had
persuaded someone to sponsor a meeting in Hilo, Hawaii. The volcano on the Big Island at Pu'u O'o had
continued to be active over the
It's the thirty-sixth anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Please take a moment to remember those who died that beautiful May morning, and to appreciate the power of a volcano to change...
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GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-05-16 13:03:27]
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Yosemite’s Half Dome stands, majestic, over a granite dominated terrain in the Yosemite Valley area; one of the most beautiful landscapes in northern America, and arguably, the world – it is also an Earth scientist’ playground. Stamped into the west slope of the Sierra Nevada range, the Yosemite Valley is a collection of lush forests, deep valleys, meandering rivers and streams, all punctuated by huge domes and cliffs of ancient volcanic origin. Come and explore this part of the [...]
Tree planting crews and people out for a little recreational fun on Mount St. Helens's south side learn that even when a volcano's blowing out to the north, the south side will also see some pretty...
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In their quest to unravel the physical and chemical processes controlling volcanic eruptions, Einat Lev and colleagues headed to South America and the volcanoes of
Villagers ride through a landscape rendered in monochrome by volcanic ash from Mount Bromo in east Java, Indonesia. The volcano has been erupting for a month.Source
Greetings from Dublin! Mary Reinthal (’16) and I are attending the annual conference of the Volcano and Magmatic Studies Group (#VMSG2016) at Trinity College. Volcanologists, petrologists, geochemists, and geophysicists have gathered to share their research on igneous topics ranging from large igneous provinces (LIPs) to volcanic hazards. We started the conference, appropriately, with a tour
Being on a volcano isn't too bad,at least if it isn't erupting. In Hawaii, I've even enjoyed being on an erupting volcano. "On" isn't too hard as a rule. You just drive or walk on it. Being over a volcano takes a little aerial technology, but flying to Seattle on a clear day does the trick. I've occasionally posted aerial shots of the Cascades volcanoes.
Getting under a volcano is a
Geology for Global Development [2015-11-06 19:01:46]
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Cecilia Reed (aka Lady Rock) is a volcano and geology enthusiast, film-maker and communicator based in London, UK. She has previously published a really interesting series of videos relating to volcanic activity, culture and the local environment in Central America. Cecilia has kindly allowed us to republish this post from her Tumblr site, introducing her latest video series and reflecting on the nature of geology around us. As autumn truly sets in, the downpour of gold and orange leaves [...]
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Dutch engineers have built a structure that is capable of simulating tsunamis bigger than ever before (7m). The channel that holds up to 9 million litres (about 2400000 US gallons) of water and a 10 meter wave generator is powered 1,9 MW system. But see the video for yourself. See the project here: DeltaRes
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In this week’s Imaggeo on Monday’s image an almost Martian looking landscape, with ombre coloured soils, gives way to gently rolling hills, covered in luscious woods and vegetation. Were it not for the trees in the distance, you would be forgiven for thinking this image had been captured by a Mars rover. In truth, it is an entirely more earthly landscape: welcome to the slopes of Mt. Etna! Keep on reading as Alicia Mourgán, a researcher at the University of València, gives an overview of [...]
Our epic liveblog of Richard Waitt's In the Path of Destruction continues! In this edition, we'll cover the very long Chapter 4: Bulge, in which the volcano begins to swell ominously, and a lot of...
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It's one thing to talk about a subduction zone from the outside, where one might see an oceanic trench, or a chain of volcanoes. It's quite another to explore the convergent zone from the inside out, by, for instance, standing under the volcano. Miles below the volcano. That's what one gets to do along the lower stretches of the Sea to Sky Highway between Whistler and Vancouver in
Iceland may be gearing up for another round of volcanic and tectonic events, and some of them could be spectacular. The world only recently started paying close attention to Iceland's volcanoes after the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, Grimsvötn the following year, and the recent eruption of a Bárðarbunga fissure system at Halhuraun. Bárðarbunga's eruption was the largest in recent history, with a massive lava field being issued, and millions of tons of SO2 gas.The events at [...]
Predictions of where planes can safely fly following volcanic eruptions could be improved, thanks to fresh discoveries about ash clouds. To study the size of ash grains and how far they can travel, scientists at the Met Office and the … Continue reading
As someone who grew up in Seattle and has lived here for the past 17 years, I, like many in the Pacific Northwest, have a long history with Mount Saint Helens. In junior high, we took a field trip to explore the volcano’s lava tubes. I remember wandering through the narrow passages and being excited … Continue reading Mount Saint Helens: 35 years
Mono Lakes Eastern shore has been shaking lately. A lot. This has been going on for around a week now, as I have kept my eyes on it. Nobody is writing anything particularly useful about the goings-on there, so I thought it would be good to mention it.Screenshot of Mono Lake quake swarm from Google Earth with USGS Real-time quake overlay.The Eastern shore of Mono Lake is experiencing a couple of small shallow quake swarms, although some quakes have reached magnitude three or higher. This is [...]
Photo post of a trip to the volcano 4/30-5/1 to see the high stand of the lava lake. After the clouds lifted on 5/1Halemaumau with Ohia blooms in the foreground 5/1Halemaumau lava lake 5/1Thermal camera image from 4/30 ~ 10pm
Around 10 million years ago, a lava flow surged from a volcano near present-day Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada. Composed of latite, but non-viscous like basalt, it flowed off the volcano and into the channel of the ancestral Stanislaus River, eventually flowing close to sixty miles. The river eventually eroded another valley and the lava flow was left relatively intact. The Sierra Nevada