Millennium Volcanoes
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Volcanic Winters
Guest Post by Albert: Weather is changeable but climate is forever. At least so it seemed, before the global warming began in earnest in the 1980s. The difference between weather and climate is often lost on us: we experience and remember the weather but changes over decades are hidden from us. Nature is different: flowers…
Tambora’s long echo through history and culture. Part 2: 1816 – present
By Talla Hopper: Sketch of a sunset c1820-30 by J.M.W. Turner. A study has shown that the use of the colour Carmine increases in artists’ palettes in the years after a large volcanic eruption. In the previous article on Tambora I concentrated on the immediate aftermath of the eruption and the devastation caused in Europe…
Tambora’s long echo through history and culture. Part 1: 1815-1816
Tambora’s long echo through history and culture. Part 1: 1815-1816 By Talla Hopper Weymouth Bay with approaching storm by John Constable. Painted in the summer of 1816 As KarenZ told us in a previous post, on 5 April 1815 the first of a series of explosions occurred at Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in…
Bárðarbunga, the End of the Eruption or…?
Fig 1. From Holuhraun lava field 4 March 2015. The central part of the crater Baugur (Circle) on March 4th, view to the North along the crater. The encrusted surface of the lava lake has collapsed. Its remains are now a course, black rubble at the bottom of the crater. Small vents of blueish gas…
Kerguelen, Amsterdam/St Paul, and Iceland
How Australia became an island (https://elowyn.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/kerguelen-islands/) By Albert The oceans were once less known than the Moon. Perhaps this is true no longer. Gravity maps released last year show remarkable details of the ocean floor. Chains of (ex-)volcanoes are everywhere. Spreading ridges and transform faults are visible. Under water plateaus around islands are revealed. A…
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