As long as this post was assembled out of a draft in half an hour and i don´t know much about lavas myself … 2 points are to be earned here. One for the volcano, and one for the food which is most popular as a chliche. Try for the lava too, ( and other stuff ) Some extra bonus-points might get assigned.
Alan´s evil riddle:
Yes, German, sub-marine hydrothermally altered lava may exist, but it’s not me; I suppose I’m just a bit of an ole’ ‘rusty’ prototype rock!
What is my name?
What do I look like!
So this is my quick shot at this weeks bar opening. A toast to Carl!!!!!! Happy Birthday!.
Spica
Here comes the draft:
Answers to Name that lava #1
Teide Panorama ( Wikimedia Commons)
The answer to the very first Name that Lava competition and an image sent to Carl by DFMorvan was a lavabomb of Pico del Teide.
Picture by DF Morvan showing the first mystery lava.
Pico del Teide was also the answer to Name that Lava XV
Roques de Garcia.
Quote: TheWorldWonder.com “Los Roques De Garcia are the spectacular eroded rocks of an ancient volcanic crater wall in Teide National park. Tenerife is a stratovolcano capped by Las Canadas, one of the most impressive calderas (craters) in the world. The strange landscape inside the Canadas caldera has been used in feature films such as Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and Ten Commandments.”
Teide is with 3,718 Spains highest Mountain, a volcano which last erupted 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the north western Santiago rift. Porto del Cruz is in danger if it should erupt again. The surroundings of Teide are now forming the Teide National Park which is 18,990 hectares large and was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. 2,8 million vistors are counted every year.
The Wikipedia article on Teide and its different stages of formation is worth reading: Teide Wikipedia
Information about Pico del Teide from GVP
Image Wikimedia Commons
The triangular shadow of Teide is one of the wonders of our world. Quote http://www.theworldwonders.com/africa/pico_de_teide.html : “At sunrise the triangular shadow of the Pico De Teide extends 124 miles across the Atlantic Ocean and thus form the world’s longest shadow.”
The phenomenon of a volcanoes shadow is explained with Nasa´s “astronomy picture of the day” ( July 5th. 2011)
Tourist info on Pico del Teide.
( Posted as a comment by Winner Schteve )
You can visit Teide even without a car, there is one bus a day from Los Cristianos in the South of Tenerife and one from Puerto de la Cruz in the North (both leaving the bus station at about 9am ish, returning from the National park at 4pm ish.) It is well worth knowing that if the first bus is full TITSA will lay on a second (and ensure that there is enough room for everyone on the return journey.)
Anyone can ascend to the “observation platform” which is approx 200m short of the summit either walking (for the superfit, with thier own car, i’m almost certain there is not enough time for this using the bus, though staying in the Parador Nacional del Teide is an option…) For the less energetic the cable car whisks you up there in a few minutes apporox 30 euros return… you can cable car up and walk down (or vice versa) but you will need good knees
If you want to visit the summit you will need a permit, available online from the National Park Authority, this is an arduous climb (200m, scchteeeeep, at altitude) from the cable car station…
Please remember that even at the base of the cable car, you are at altitude (2500m ish, my ears pop on the bus journey Take care those with heart/ respiratory conditions, the cable car is definately not recommended x
Sounds obvious, but watch out for the weather, it can be chilly especially at the top of the cable car (-5c one time I went!!!), but the sun is fierce because you are usually above the clouds and the wind will dry you out nearly as quickly as the sun…
Spica
GL Edit: Set first image width to 640. Happy Birthday Carl!
VolcanoCafé 
You put that together in nalf an nour?
Schwift work x
Nice post on my personal favourite tourist volcano x
Happy Friday All, weather here in Brighton looking “changeable” for Bank Holiday Weekend; my plan? Put a light weight transparent plastic roof on our “veteran” brick built shed…
Fingers crossed x
Yes, you notice i had a draft to rely on.
The archives got updated as well in those 30 mins!
Nice!
That picture of the volcano shadow got my attention. Could be a new way of thinking about why the pyramids are shaped the way they are. Any hieroglyphics showing the volcano gods? Speaking of which – I was watching the Science Channel on TV the other night which featured New Zealand volcanoes and earthquakes. There was a beautiful aerial view of White Island. Looked way too pretty to be such a menace.
I saw that too-very informative! Beautiful photography!
OK, noone came up with the correct answer within 15 mins….. i feel like i won.
That is a win nowadays… 🙂
Yeah
And again Happy late Bday Carl, next week it will be my turn. ( in case anyone is interested on thursday i ll be almost half a century and turn 49 years old.) Renatos birthday should be soon too.
– Is not the name of the endangered city (by Teide) Puerto de la Cruz? Have been there once.
– What is a chliche? Is this a) an English or b) a Spanish word or c) from another language?
– Could the new lava photo be from Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland? http://www.geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukiant01.htm
Sure was meant to be cliché, from French for a stereotype somehow.
yeah , what he said.
Thank you. 🙂
A cliché is a movable type used in printing presses that contains common words. Like “at” “and” and so forth. From that it quickly developed that you are saying something that is so much a universal truth that it is meaningless.
Edit: Drawback of having grown up in a publishing family is that you got to learn a lot of archane knowledge that have been rendered useless by modern technology.
I miss when the Telex started clunking out a paper strip in the middle of the room.
For some reason my father found it to be a good idea to have one at home in the living room…
Internet was done with vacuum tubes hurtling through the building with texts on the way to the Linotronic Typesetter. And… pictures where sent on the first imagefax from Agfa. 1 black and white image took an hour to send. And lead plates for the printing presses.
I will never forget the smell of a large printing press starting up late in the evening, ink, lead and hot oil together with fresh dampened paper (damp paper take ink better). Wonderfull smell. Childhood… Sigh 🙂
Looking at the basalt columns and the colour of the soil that has formed from the degraded basalt, I reckon this is somewhere in Saudi Arabia/Jordan/southern Syria
Looks very deserty, wherever it is. So where are hot deserts with basalt lava flows apart from the Middle East?
Nice columnar jointing, wherever it is
Happy birthday Carl 🙂
Thank you Stephanie!
I can’t see my comment (lava columns: perhaps Giant’s causeway, northern Ireland).
BTW: Is something going on at Eyjafjallajökull (yes, the one): http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/smj.gif or http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/esk.gif Nothing to be seen at Kalta (eg. Austmannsbunga) or Godabunga. 🙂
Thanks. It seems my first comment was now released from spam. 🙂
BTW: Happy birthday, Carl. 🙂
Thank you Inge!
Happy birthday Carl!!
First guess: Mount Negev, Israel
Makhtesh Ramon
“Giv’at Ga’ash, a black hill in the north of the makhtesh was once an active volcano which erupted thousands of years ago and caused it to be covered in lava which quickly cooled in the open air, converting it into basalt. Limestone covered by basalt can also be found in smaller black hills in the southern part of the makhtesh, including Karnei Ramon.
Shen Ramon (Ramon’s Tooth) is a rock made of magma which hardened whilst underground. It later rose up through cracks in the Earth’s surface, and today stands in striking contrast with the nearby creamy coloured southern wall of the crater, as a black sharp-edged rock.
In the centre of the makhtesh is Ha-Minsara (The Carpentry Shop), a low hill made up of black prismatic rocks, and interestingly, the rectangular pipes on the side of the hill are made of the same sort of sand found on beaches. As such, this is the only place in the world where prisms made of heated sand turned into liquid which, in cooling naturally formed rectangular and hexagonal prisms, can be seen. These prisms lost no space in the middle during formation.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhtesh_Ramon:
This is also the site where the picture can be found; text: “Sandy rectangular and hexagonal prisms at the centre of Makhtesh Ramon – Ha-Minsara”.
Clever you!
And the explanation what a makhtesh is:
“A makhtesh (Hebrew: מַכְתֵּשׁ ([maχˈteʃ]), plural: מַכְתְּשִׁים ([ˈmaχtəˌʃim]) – Makhteshim) is a geological landform considered unique to the Negev desert of Israel. A makhtesh has steep walls of resistant rock surrounding a deep closed valley which is usually drained by a single wadi. The valleys have limited vegetation and soil, containing a variety of different colored rocks and diverse fauna and flora. The best known and largest makhtesh is Makhtesh Ramon.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhtesh
More photos of Ha-Minsara: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nonlin/galleries/72157624380121990/#photo_3134558174
WOW What a wonderful place! At times like this I wish I had money and could visit such places. Next best thing? I will dream of it tonight. 😉
Ding!
Thank you Sissel!
Just got around to having cake. We opted for cake and coffee instead of going out. Everyone is just to tired. And now I am sitting at a café.
Happy birthday Master Carl!
Thank you Shadow!
Thanks Spica I have been lucky enough to go to the top of Teide (eyes closed in the cable car) it was so strange holding a snowball in my hand at the top.
Happy Birthday Carl.
Ditto on the B’ Day wishes—Friday birthdays were best— you have two extra days to celebrate (or recuperate)!
Thank you Judith and Maggiemom!
Well, I did not do a lot of celebrating really. Worked like a maniac and then coffee and cake. And a loooooooong phone call to Hailey of course 🙂
And “chliche” food – maybe falafel (deep-fried chickpea balls stuffed into pita bread).
Sorry for all this comments but I had a bright moment.
Another try: Kebab or Shwarma.
Ding
@Carl
Happy Birthday!
@Spica
Interesting post, thanks! I am ‘somewhere interesting’ at the moment and have been picking up a few bits of lava – can I get your mail address? Carl has my e-mail address.
Thank you UKViggen!
Hint of the day, all Dragons have access to emails.
I got myself an emailadress especially for this place. It is spica308(at)gmail.com
hi schteve 42
do you live at Brighton east sussex beacuse I live in peacehaven east sussex what a small world is’nt it the weather should be nice on sunday so the southeast news said.
Hi Jack,
Yup; the Brighton,
Pint? (or coffee?)
Ha! And I came into the world just along the coast. Mum still lives there (nr E’bourne)
And Hubby’s family have lived in West Sussex going back 300 years at least.
Evening Spica. There is a misunderstanding from the start. This pillow is Not from Teide on Tenerife, it’s from Gran Canaria near Roque Nublo (to be precise, near the parking place to go to R.N).
Hope this help…
and Happy birthday Master Carl ! Many happy returns
Thanks DF Morvan!
Regarding the thing with it being mistaken for Teide instead of Gran Canaria is all mine. When I wrote the original post I made that mistake, and it seems to have permeated downhill… Sorry Spica!
I tought it was from Teide, a lavabomb which landed on Gran Canaria???????????
I think DFMorvans says (17:59) that it is pillow lava.
Last eruptions on Gran Canaria were 3.500 years ago.
🙂
Hey DFM,
I wondered ’bout that from the schtart…
An Teide lavabomb photographed ont top of Gran Canaria…
As long as I’m ont schcoreboard I don’t mind 🙂
Happy Birthday to Carl, our “Leader of the Pack” 🙂
Thank you Bobbi!
@GeoLurking
Are you boarding up your windows yet?
@ GLurking—Yea, I have been wondering the same- keeping an eye on that massive T.S.— surely to become a huge hurricane once it hits the G. of M. Get out of Dodge!
I think Lurking still has a few hours, the Hurricane is still in the Caribbean
Nope… not boarding up. Though I think I will go get propane and gas this weekend.
There is a bit of dry air choking it down, and it’s driving headlong into a shear zone. Haiti’s 10000 foot mountains, and the 6000 foot ones of Cuba aren’t helping it any. They tend to gut passing storms.
Based on the track, I’m thinking it’s gonna have about 24 to 36 hours of good water to draw off of before it makes landfall. That’s gonna be the key as to how strong it will get.
I do know that this weekend is the time to go Spanish and King Mackerel fishing. They hit hard when there is an approaching storm. The down side it I have to go do a couple of service calls on Monday… right along the center of the landfall envelope.
Fun fun. I’ll have by raincoat and I’ll take a bag of biscuits with me. :D. If push comes to shove I’ll hit the back roads and motor back to the house away from the traffic. (I’ve seen the Interstate at a complete stand still with traffic from the over-hyped weak storms)
Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Tampa? The traffic and security will be a nightmare without a potential hurricane. No doubt about it – small town rural America is a blessing.
Awwww – you were posting while I was typing. About covered it.
Actually… I am extraordinary pissed off about Tampa.
First… it’s a security nightmare. The “Anarchist” groups are planning on making a large showing. Outlying (from Tampa) municipalities throughout Florida are contributing manpower to assist in the security requirements.
Isaac, with it’s landfall potential, places a requirement on some of those areas to not contribute that manpower. Expecting them to do so would be ludicrous with a land-falling tropical system.
So… on top of all that, our DUFAS Vice President is being dispatched to go stick his muffin head into the middle of it to campaign for our most illustrious shitbag. A VP’s security detail has to be interfaced with, and that just adds to the nightmare scenario that is brewing for Tampa.
To me… it fully validates my opinion that this group of self serving charlatans is hell bent on causing as much strife for common people as possible. Anarchist groups, if not able to breach the security cordon of the convention, will do as much destruction to the peripheral area as possible just so that they can get attention. Who will that affect? The small businesses, the residents, the mom and pop stores and shops.
Yep.. all is going according to their plan. And I sincerely hope that they burn in hell for it.
First, Biden has cancelled his Tampa visit, citing the exact reasons you gave, authorities need to be able to focus on the storm and the RNC circus.
Second, 5,000 of those ‘Anarchists” will be everyday citizens from voting groups, labor unions and civil rights groups. I sure hope the Tampa cops can tell the difference.
Third, I have great respect for 99% of your posts, but I’m afraid this one isn’t up to your usual standards 😦
GL Edit: Moved here in order to keep it in context.
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Thats quite alright. There are some positions and stances in here that I fully disagree with.
As to the cancellation, thats news to me, It would be interesting to see a source for it. I still stand behind my interpretation of motives for considering such a stunt. It displays the callous nature of the entities involved. If true, it would be the only prescient thing that I’ve seen him do.
An interesting side note, I used to be in and support that political affiliation. It was a family tradition. That affiliation changed, I grew a bit more perceptive in my B/S detection, and I no longer support the ideology… which is completely different than when I was in that camp. I also don’t support the other side, though I am registered as such. I would vote for Elmer Fudd If I thought he had a chance of stopping the buffoonery. Having to support, or augment the subsistence of three generations living under one roof tends to add clarity to ones view of the economic malaise. (I also don’t even see the reason for either convention, this is the 21st century and no one has to ride a horse several hundred miles to go select a candidate… which is why the flipping things were started a hundred and fifty some odd years ago.)
@Carl. Currently, there is a moderate push that laments the evil of American Football and the liability of the teams for injuries. I don’t really think that these people comprehend what the other option is if or when American Football goes away. Soccer fans (the extreme ones) fall into the category of full on psychotic when their team looses, or wins… depending on the mood.
To me those Tampan anarchists seems to be the usual semi-confused kids that are against organized politics. We’ve had them around for half a century. And I do understand their point a bit, just having two sets of idiots to vote for would drive me bonkers. It is better with many sets of nuts, then they do less crap. The older I get, the more I think that all politics is wrong, and that the best way is the old Roman adagé, “To divide and conquer”.
Now, wait untill you get Football Hooligans! Those are the major problem. They do not need any reason for ultra-violence. They just attack anything on sight, they are highly organized into decent sized armys.
I guess you will get them soon in the US now that you stupidly enough have imported Football. I flat out refuse to call it soccer just out of you guys having American Football.
Instead of complaining about the youths that soon will grow up into law abiding members of the Republicans, worry about the incoming hooligans. I give you 5 to 10 years before you have grown them in dangerous numbers. Hint, ban football while you have time.
I miss going to sporting events in the US. It was so nice to sit down in a stadium with a beer and a sausage seeing fathers that took their children to the games at hand. Terrific atmosphere, and you actually felt safe there. Here there is no way to bring your family to a game. The risk of them getting killed in a sporting riot is just to big.
Ban Football while you still have time.
The US Navy, despite it’s new found zeal for being politically correct, has a significant amount of money invested in ships. As such, they stay on top of what the weather is doing, with a vengeance. Hose up a prognostication and they could loose a serious chunk of change and quite possibly, kill a lot a Sailors.
When it comes to tropical systems… I tend to rely on their data to second guess what the political hacks at NOAA have to say.
Now… it’s not perfect, but the last time I checked, the US Navy used a variation of the “Nogaps” model in their prognostication. Based on the latest update from them, just before landfall this system may max out at 75 kt winds (139 kph) with gusts to 90 kts (166 kph). The track looks to be right at Panama City, with the North East quadrant driving over Port St Joe. That’s gonna be a ride for the folks down there… if it hits like that. Thousands of acres (hectares) of pine and low lying land. The pine will probably survive quite well, they are seriously flexible trees. I’ve seen the tops of some of them bent over at 90° in the wind and not snap… well, most of them not snap. Those that do are quite alarming.
Based on that data… Tampa will get 38 kt winds (70 kph)
(from TROPICAL STORM ISAAC (09L) WARNING NR 015 data)
Falafel ?
Happy Birthday Carl!!!
And congratulations to Sissel for cracking the lava riddle.
Now, what would be the cliche food in this area. Falafel? Hummus? Taboulleh? Pita bread? Kebab?
Thank you Ursula!
I am thinking a bit outside of the box here…
Gefillte Fish, Matze-ball soup, bagel and of course for those who came from the east, blinies with sour cream.
Biblically it would though have been bread, fish and wine.
That cold soup, similar to a gaspaccio, how is it called? Yammm! Boscha?
Hail B’s ‘n’ G’s!
Flying visit for an hour or so!
Playing ‘Sherlock Holmes’ at the moment over something/one that may take me on a wide ranging goose-to-cook chase, so may be about on a ‘bitsy’ basis over next few weeks!
Riddly-dee!!
Alan, be careful – geese can bite!
Please leave some hints in Spica’s mailbox cause it is difficult again!!
Carl forwarded the email, so i can go around and hint a tiny little bit too. But i dont know, You lot are just too clever, even though the riddle is really devious, i am sure you will figure it out anyway.
I have the answer to the Riddle. 🙂
So, I can hint a bit tomorrow.
And all should be warned. Alan has taken this to a complete new level of evility. I was drop-jawed when I saw the answer of how his devious mind operates.
Happy Birthday Carl!
Thank you Talla!
‘Pop up’ tsunami – new mechanism involving expulsion of accretionary wedge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19366314
… so this group is claiming that the Japan side of the fault went up, effectively snapping, the other side dropping, and then squeezing part of the accretionary prism upward like a piston? (due to the lower volume area that it could occupy)
Does this account for the land mass movement on the island proper?
Hmm…. It would be interesting to see how peer review works out on this one.
Tsunami earthquake generation by the release of gravitational potential energy
Dan McKenzie and James Jackson:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X12003202
This “group” simply includes Dan McKenzie, the founder of the idea of plate tectonics. Something to be taken very seriously, right?
Can’t say. I haven’t seen the data on the actual crust movement. Sort of been waiting around for it.
But, the idea of shoving the accretionary wedge off to one side… with it acting as a “piston” would account for the apparent increase in the yield. (and enhance the Black Swan nature of it) Previously no one expected something of this scale.
One of the “things” about Black Swan events that make it fit the definition better… is that after the fact, the sequences and mechanism that made the Black Swan are explained as ‘well, now that we know the facts we should have seen the danger.’
I’m not lambasting the “group” at all, just trying to wrap my noggin around it.
The Lituya Bay tsunami (though it was actually a “bath tub” event) was enhanced by the formation of an air pocket behind the falling rock mass. This increased the displacement and the size of the resulting wave. The “after the fact” analysis also qualified it as a true Black Swan.
BTW, thanks for the paper link!(provided I can figure out how to get around the paywall)Nope… I guess it’s not that important of a paper for the general public. I’ll leave out the other comment an keep it polite…
The link was placed in the BBC article that Peter pointed out in his above comment, I just pasted it here only to show it was not merely a news hoax or anything of the kind. And no, I didn’t pay for the article.
Sorry if I didn’t explain it beforehand…
And thanks for another Black Swan explanation, Lurk.
🙂
@ Grimmster
Glad to see you’re back 🙂
@ Carl ‘av a good-un!
Layered Devil’s cake. I was informed that it was Louisiana style Devil cake. It was tasty 🙂
Thank you Alan!
Hjärtliga gratulationer redaktör Carl, tillönskar dig en toppen-födelsedag!
Cheers
Christian
Det blir en lagom lugn kväll. Lite tårta med kaffe. Har haft en helvetiskt hektisk vecka så det fanns ingen energi till att göra mer än så i dag. 🙂
We are only discussing the New World Order.
http://www.aipchile.gob.cl/camara/show/id/14
Chaiten in Action
if somebody knows what is with ovdas or whether there is still Chile volcano webcams
Happy Birthday Carl.
Thank you Karen!
Good job, Karen. I just LOVE the cake.
Hehe!
What a fitting cake for this place!
That is a wonderful cake!
Too cute!
And a Special Thank you for Spica and Lurking!
If you want to make me really happy, let me sail the yawl one of these days. I did my A license at the age of 5 and ever since we had to sell my dads boat, i have sailing withdrawal symptoms.
Carl got a birthday today? Well I beat him to it, by many years I reckon! 1949 was mine, congrats to us and let’s live to be 100 and still love volcanoes.
Ooooo, a double birthday at VolcanoCafe!!
Here you go, happy birtday Newby and grattis Carl (igen 😉 ) !
Ooooh pink and blue! Ta, can I have some of the choccy one?
I think you need to ask Carl. 😉
Carl, please very muchly! I will do anything, (Well that is hyperbole) for chocolate. 😉
Ah well, the pink one looks bigger anyway. :0
How about half each?
Ummm, omnom! Means yes please. Even if I would be Bill and Dick. For ones not conversant with Cockney slang, = sick.
Why did I just start thinking about Clinton? Hm…
volcanocafe says:
August 24, 2012 at 21:02 (Edit)
Dunno. That’s the last thing that went through my mind. Not my kind of music.
Well, happy birthday to you, too, Newby.
Hi Bobbi, how you doing?
Doing good. Have been really busy with family visits so I haven’t been posting for a while, but I have been following. My birthday is Monday (27th) and I was born in 1946, so we are pretty close in age. 100 and still loving volcanoes sounds real good to me! 😀
Cake for Newby. Happy Birthday:
Ah, so sweet! Luv choccie, Luv lamb chops. oops. :blushing:
Congratulations Newby!
First go at the riddle (probably the first of many, but had to get this one out of the way):
Germanite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanite (has a picture!)
second go: Uraninite (UO2). Appearance: cubic crystal system; black to brownish black, dark grey, greenish; octahedral form; sub-metallic / pitchy / dull lustre.
third go (then coffee time): franklinite: cubic crystal system; iron-black; octohedral form; metallic lustre.
Bit of a tangent: gold.
Better not leave out uranium.
Now it’s coffee time. 😀
Or stauriolite: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Staurolite-26463.jpg
* staurolite
Properties of staurolite: (Wiki) it often occurs twinned in a characteristic cross-shape, called penetration twinning. In handsamples, macroscopically visible staurolite crystals are of prismatic shape. They are often larger than the surrounding minerals and are then called porphyroblasts.
In thin sections staurolite is commonly twinned and shows lower first order birefringence similar to quartz, with the twinning displaying optical continuity. It can be identified in metamorphic rocks by its swiss cheese appearance (with poikilitic quartz) and often mantled porphyroblastic character.
I have some !
And that reminded me.
It is definitely not Astrolite either. Neither type A, B, nor D. (There is no type C).
Happy Birthday Carl, and thank you all again for your kind comments, they meant a lot.
Yeah! You are here!
And thank you for wishing me a happy birthday!
Grimmster, how very nice to have you back again!!! Hope you are getting a lot better. It sounded a horrific accident so all good wishes for your continuing recovery. Maybe next chance you get to go to El Hierro Bob may be performing properly for us all. I was worried that the worst that happened was that you got arrested stealing restingolites. Life is so unpredictable but hope it runs smoothly for you now.
“sub-marine hydrothermally altered lava” and “a bit of an ole’ ‘rusty’ prototype rock!” bring El Hierro restingolites to my mind. Probably way off the mark here but perhaps someone can carry this thought further and the “Yes, German” (Ja?) doesn’t seem to fit anywhere. I love cryptic crosswords and this riddle is certainly cryptic!!
Alan is really Teutonic in his evility this time around. I got to think about the painting by Grünewald named The Crucification when reading the riddle.
Well it is certainly torturous suffering trying to work it out. LOL
And it makes me cross!
Odd, I didn’t know that Nuns attended the event….
The nun as you call it is Mary mother of God and the woman on her knees would be Mary Magdalene. Both where present at Yahweh’s crucifixtion.
And just since we where talking about the difference between Ketches and Yawls a few days ago.
I just got a mail from Sparkman & Stephens that the sister ship (first of the type) of my ship is up for sale.
So if you wish to see a Yawl here is the image of Palawan II. Notice that the aft mast is behind the rudderstock. A Ketch has the aft mast infront of the Rudderstock.
The boat is the second most beautiful thing I have seen, the most beautiful is my wife.
Aw Carl, that last sentence is so lovely. Congrats to you both. Now I must go before I want to buy a Yawl!.
With a yawl yawl be happy.
Specal sentence for Lurking.
All yall over yonder be good now, ya hear?
😀
Beautiful boat, but not for me… (unfortunately I get seasick way too easily)
However, it’s a German boat, so is this a hint for Alan’s riddle, what with submarine stuff and all?
A German boat?
It was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built in New England by Abeking & Rasmussen.
No, this was just me getting nautical on you all.
OK, yes, but check the flag!
Haha, missed that flag. I guess that would give Boris Behncke all sorts of joy. He after all get the annoying view now and then of the Swedish flag on my ship when he goes to Catania.
I’ll have to send him the advertisement…
🙂 🙂 🙂
No I understand the Caribean and especially Martinique knowledge !
Martiinique is actually due to me having a friend from the little Island.
But yes, I’ve been sailing there.
Hi Carl
Well, plenty of andesitic volcanoes to visit in the neighbourhood. I wish I could return. Having a ship there is invaluable as it is difficult to move between the islands.
Yes it is, but nowadays I have it parked in Sicily. The plan is to see an eruption there one day. So far it has never happened. It is rumoured that Boris is planning his vacations out of me arriving to the island.
I am most likely the world champion of nearly missing eruptions.
A really beautiful boat, Carl! Wow, when will you sail again? Next paroxysm?
No, I will either arrive the day after, or go the day before.
It is always like that. With the exception at one time when both happened. I have also missed Montserrat, and Anak Krakatoa twice.
Closest I’ve come an actual eruption is a pumice raft. That was though cool.
Is this graph showing the EQ’S on La Palma
Happy Birthday to Carl and Newby. and most of all, welcome back to Grimmster. I hope that you’re well on the road to recovery. I’ll raise a glass of Springbank to all three of you from here in not- so- sunny Scotland. Cheers .
Riddle again: gneiss or migmatite. Apearance of the first: layed; and, of the second, schist or gneiss interlayered / streaked with granite.
& jadeite.
or nephrite.
& jadeitite.
Happy birthday Carl
Small quake near…ish Hekla. Hella just took one helluva drop then straight back up.
OOPS Link http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/hekla/thensla_hella.html
Oh dear, must have been tired last night, just noticed that chart hasn’t updated since the 23rd!!!!
And this one is to greet Carl’s birthday:
Friday 24.08.2012 21:26:17 63.915 -20.018 3.4 km 0.8 54.72 18.1 km SE of Árnes
Happy Birthday, Carl!
Happy Birthday Carl and Newby, been away for a bid missed all of the fun you had, here is something for you to enjoy
I don’t know how to put it her, so will email instead enjoy
Happy Birthday Carl (sooooo sorry how late I am here)!
Thank you Islander!
@ Carl – Grattis på födelsedagen! (Hope I didn’t say something weird, I giggled that.) 🙂
@ Newby, Happy Birthday to you too, I hope you have a good day and are doing well. I am wishing you lots of chocolate!
Hej Denise! Man tackar så mycket!
You just wrote that my dog is tasty.
Nah, giggle actually did it perfectly. For once.
Interesting… I was watching the Ancient Apocalypse episode “Death on the Nile” which looks at the fall of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. While watching it, I was trying to localize Lake Moeris, the ancient name of the lake in the Faiyum Oasis.
At some time during the fall of the Old Kingdom, the lake dried up. This was during Bond Event 3, also known as the 4.2 kiloyear event. Additionally, Akkadian Empire also collapsed.
Anyway… unlike the Indiana State Legislature who in 1897, tried to legislate π (in some versions of the story, to 9), the Ancient Egyptians came pretty flipping close to getting it correct. In problems 41 – 46 of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a value of 256/81 is used in the volume calculations. While not actually π, it’s a pretty good approximation. 3.160493827 instead of 3.141592654…
That’s a difference of about 0.018901174, or 0.60% off of the actual value. And that’s from about 1650 BC.
The old Egyptians very rather clever ones, yes.
But the title of the film first reminded me of Agatha Christie and the film with Peter Ustinov. 🙂
Sorry, just first cup of coffee today.
Should be “were very clever”. 😳
I could not reply to your ( 1 before) last comment
The lavabomb on NtL #1 needs to be cleared, meaning, we finally need a correct answer and i need to write a new post with the correct answer
Little known fact, due to the weather weakening the big powers the little known tribes of Isreal succeded with creating a small country. It rapidly fell apart due to infighting. The actual time that biblical Israel existed was between 50 and 200 years depending if you count the left over remnants after the civil wars and splittings.
As soon as the weather got better the powers came back and stomped what remained down under without breaking a sweat.
And then came the Romans and did the second Largest stomping in history. Only Djinghiz and his son Kublai did a better job at stomping, but they never bothered with that little corner of the world (Mongolian perspective on things).
Happy Birthday Carl and Newby! Hope you both have seriously awesome weekends and a good year to follow! cheers!
mm.. that was a damn fine drop. (I love these virtual birthday parties where you get to have the whole bottle to yourself, nah, just kidding, I’ll keep it for this evening).
Thank you Bruce!
As for the picture, that looks like really strange stuff. Columnar jointing so it was obviously at one stage a liquid that cooled slowly but its seems to crumble to dust and not have any crystal integrity at all and the colour looks about as far removed from basalt as you can get. So I am going for a huge flow of baked and ground tapioca, you know one of those old testament type events, just this one obviously didn’t make it into the book, when God was still playing around with the ingredients.
As for the food, I think I’ve got that too, it’s either pork or penguin. How did I do?
great but no banana, i am sorry
Sissel snatched that one already
Renato posted this over on eruptions, but a 5.8 happened in almost exactly the same place where the Kermadec submarine eruption ocurred last week. Keep an eye out for a possible second eruption?
G´morning! Having milk and honey for breakfast, wasn´t that also the food of the promised land? Or would that be too cliché? 😉
Unfortunately they don´t sell mana at the local shops.
@Teide shadow: That is a beautiful case of anti-crepuscular rays.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/anti1.htm
I just published a new post, before Carl could take away the privilege, because i messed the last one up badly
Nono, it was I who bunged the original post up. And I forgot to correct it way back when.
So, just so everyone knows, the fault was mine and only mine. I had gotten the picture sent to me with the correct answer, and still I went and wrote up the post about Teide. Not one of my greater moments.
(Giving Spica a comfort hug)
Guess that leaves me with one point for Alkali basalt on one of the later ntls 🙂 Had wondered about that since the very beginning; but talked myself into believing that Teide had flung a lava bomb all the way to Roque Nublo on Gran Canaria… Roque Nublo is well worth a visit, as is the highest point of the Island; Pico de las Nieves, there’s a military base on the very top but the views are schpectacular…
Yes, me too, in fact I was still wondering about the long distance flying lava bomb!!
This is what I wrote back then:
Congratulations, Schteve! You are a great detective.
I wondered if I understood it well, the lava bomb has flown 25 kilometers through the air befored it crashed down on Gran Canaria?? So if Teide erupts it is probably safer to stay on Tenerife…
https://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/sheepy-dalek-name-that-lava/comment-page-5/#comment-23644
Alan’s riddle is playing around in my brain…. after looking around a little, this came up: Goethite, a common mineral, formed by hydrothermal alteration or weathering of iron-bearing minerals, mostly oxides. Common in iron ore deposits. But Alan says: “it’s not me; I suppose I’m just a bit of an ole’ ‘rusty’ prototype rock!” So maybe it is just the origin of the Goethite (before altering), an iron ore.
Maybe hematite or magnetite.
Oh and what does it look like… a suggestion:
Picture text: Iron Ore: A specimen of oolitic hematite iron ore. The specimen shown is about two inches (five centimeters) across.
Goethite seems to have many appearances. Here is the webmineral description:
Color: Brown, Reddish brown, Yellowish brown, Brownish yellow, Ocher yellow.
Habit: Acicular – Occurs as needle-like crystals. Radial – Crystals radiate from a center without producing stellar forms (e.g. stibnite). Reniform – “Kidney like” in shape (e.g.. hematite).
“It often forms by weathering of other iron-rich minerals, thus is a common component of soils. It may form excellent pseudomorphs after the original minerals particularly pyrite or marcasite.”
Source: http://wisconsingeologicalsurvey.org/mineral%20index/Minerals/goethite.htm
Picture: http://wisconsingeologicalsurvey.org/mineral%20index/WI%20MIN%20PX/mont-goet1.JPG
And another beautiful picture, “Goethite after marcasite” http://www.crystalvine.co.uk/images/tucson09/tccgoethiteaftermarcasite.jpg”
from http://www.crystalvine.co.uk/news.html
Looks a little like Carl’s Grünewald impression.
Regarding the small commotion in Tampa.
I read up on it. And my god what a small scale problem that is.
“In August 2008, federal authorities arrested a man who was planning to use a molotov cocktail during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.”
Any football hooligans would be ashamed at that. A normal football riot involves hundreds of molotovs actually being thrown…
And that the confused kids “could target nearby infrastructure, including businesses and transit systems” is almost cute. That is a normal local Football pub here on a non-game day.
Ban Football while you guys still have a chance it is soon to late.
Flood is starting now from Skaftárkatlar in Vatnajökull http://www.ruv.is/frett/hlaup-hafid-i-skafta
It appears also on tremor plot http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/jok.gif and some minor earthquake in location of Skaftárkatlar http://www.vedur.is/skjalftar-og-eldgos/jardskjalftar/vatnajokull/
Thank you for the warning . I ll bring this over to the new post