Hi fellow volcanoholics!
Just a brief update on what happpened in the volcanic world and 2 riddles to provide some entertainment for the weekend!
Tolbachik is still erupting, it has done that for over a month now!
The webcam can be found here: http://www.qicknews.de/Webcams/Tolbachik.php
Here is what it looked like around noon today.
Peter Webley´s link: http://volcanodetect.blogspot.co.at/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-volcano-plosky-tolbachik-erupts-1503055
Claude Grandpey reports the latest News http://volcans.blogs-de-voyage.fr/2012/12/28/dernieres-nouvelles-latest-news-3/
We have his RSS feed on the left side of VC. It is always worth checking!
San Cristobal celebrated Xmas with an eruption! Huffington Post reports, so does BBC News.
Copahue, situated on the border between Chile and Argentina showed signs of activity too. Earthqake Report had the news on December 25th. http://earthquake-report.com/2012/12/24/volcano-activity-of-december-23-2012-chiles-copahue-volcano-spews-ash-into-the-sky-no-evacuation-needed/
A volcanic review of the year 2012 in 39 beautiful pictures!
And dont forget White Island NZ it showed some activity lately. Here are 3 cams: http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/info/whiteisland/cameras
IngeB sent a screenshot: 
And one more on Kilauea: 
Alans evil riddle!
Given that we are in the Milky Way galaxy and Galaxy is a ‘choccy’ brand, I suppose it’s obvious the Moon really could be made of cheese!!
What am I?
From what am I derived?
2 points available
( Alans own words)Current ranking: ( last updated 25.12.12)
| 13 Sissel 11 Kelda 11 Talla 9 KarenZ 4 Ursula 3 Chyphria |
3 Henri le Revenant 2 Diana 2 jeannie 1 GeoLurking 1 lughduniese 1 Sa´ke |
1 Sherine 1 purohueso745 1 UKViggen 1 IngeB 1 Carl 1 Spica |
As always the score and the answers to the riddle are provided at https://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/alan´c-evil-riddles-and-the-answers-21-to/ which can be found in GEMs in the menu.
Name those Volcanoes!
7 dings 7 points
The world’s largest processor of an edible seed, in the Proteaceae family, is named after No 1.
The 2000 census reports 0 residents on No 2, so sadly no festivities there on Ist February 2013!
No 3 is a prime example of an active volcano that poses a grave threat to the local population.
Local magic, sand art, ritual dance, and tiki carving, No 4 is set on a fascinating tropical island.
Despite the bitter ambient temperature it is possible to take a warm water bath in the sand on No 5.
Two foreign scientists mysteriously vanished without a trace whilst studying the caldera of No 6.
Tragically, all the miners perished during an eruption on No 7 but the lucky camp puss survived!
| 5 Sherine France 3 Alison 3 Kelda 3 Chryphia 3 DebbieZ |
3 Spica 3 KarenZ 2 Sissel 1 UKviggen 1 Inge B |
1 Stoneyard 1 Grimmster 1 cbus20122 1 jeannie , |
To be found in GEMs again https://volcanocafe.wordpress.com/name-that-volcanoes-answers/
Spica assited by Alan, Sissel , Kilgarrah and IngeB
VolcanoCafé 
Dragons,
There’s another post in the memory banks; please check it and let me know if I should change anything 😀
Looks good to me. Thanks.
Marecottite?
“Type locality is the La Creusaz uranium prospect near Les Marecottes, canton Valiais, Western Alps, Switzerland . It also occurs at Lucky Strike no. 2 mine, Emery County, Utah, and at Jachymov, Czech Republic.” Marecottite occurs as diamond-shaped platelets flattened along (011) that reach 500micrometers. It is a member of the zippeite group. (IMA 01-056)”
http://www.mindat.org/mesg-14-23727.html
A Frisian is a horse breed.
mare:
– A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
– Female equine animal (horse)
You can make (cottage?) cheese of mare’s milk.
Magnesium-zippeite and marecottite co-exist, sometimes in the same sample.
Sissel – A Friesian is a cow, so I’m thinking the answer is connected to major cheese manufacturer. But finding a cheese that matches a rock/mineral or connected to the moon is tough. So far I’m going with Kraft or Laughing Cow brands but getting nowhere fast…. now am getting nagged by the family to stop being so possessed…cant win 😦
Oh and Kraft was taken over or changed its name to Mondelez if that helps any.
Glad you are back, Kelda! Was missing you.
But look at this darlings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesian_horse
Real horses.
And Mars resembles “mare’s”, female horses which produce milk – and cheese is made of milk… and mare is also a moon surface… I hope this is better than SCFs!
Freieslebenite – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freieslebenite
Gruenerite – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunerite
Babybel is edam cheese shaped like a moon, a major manufacturer of Edam is FrieslandCampina – and I am eating one now…all this talk of cheese makes me hungry. And the annoying thing is I’m probably way off the mark. I threw a bit of a hissy fit with the nagging family and so have been granted 30 more minutes PC time, really hope we can solve it by then!
What do Friesians, our galaxy, Galaxy and Lindt choccy have in common, then add our nearest planetary body………
where’s Geoloco, cos Sissel’s going to do unmentionable torture…… 🙂
moonstone, because it’s milky colour?
nope, partly correct !
milky quartz?
Milk
Sorry forgot
if our nearest neighbour is of cheese what’s cheese from?
Though i think the real content of milk in those chocolates is neglectable.
Especially in British choccy……….. 🙂
Cheese is from milk and Rennet is in there somewhere so – Rheniite?
forgot to add – Rheniite is the first mineral of the element rhenium to be found. The second known approved rhenium mineral is tarkianite, being also a sulfide. Almost all commercially mined rhenium is retrieved as a by-product of molybdenum
Cheese is from Latin caseus.
Caseus lunensis (formaggio di Luni)?
Moon cheese…
Moonmilk? Mooncreme??
Selenium? From the Greek, Selene, “goddess of the Moon” to contrast Tellure, “earth”.
http://webmineral.com/data/Selenium.shtml
Selenite or Gypsum? “From the Greek, gyps meaning “burned” mineral. Selenite from the Greek in allusion to its pearly luster (moon light) on cleavage fragments.”
http://webmineral.com/data/Gypsum.shtml
It’s the weekend… my inventory is done. Busy cleaning up my shop and cobbling together some specialized cabling for testing purposes. It’s actually quite similar to the way the ET shop was run on my first ship.
Crank the radio, go to work.
Yup tuneage, maybe it’s just you n’ me but this volcano music (and hot rod.)
I like this ‘n:
Enjoy 😀
moonmilk – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonmilk from limestone
oops – should have refreshed Sissel said it already.
BANG!
Sissel have a box of choccies!
Moonmilk!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonmilk
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/Ridgeway-Railway-Cutting.htm
see pictures of Nothe Clay, about 15% down from start
Well done Sissel. That was harder than milking a Camel! That’s the closest metaphor I can find that resembles ‘like getting blood from a stone’ 🙂 Please give us another quicky riddle Alan, the family are now otherwise engaged playing Jenga and ignoring me for the moment, so I’ve maybe got a couple of hours to kill.
So it is “a precipitate from limestone comprising aggregates of fine crystals of varying composition usually made of carbonate materials, e.g., calcite, hydromagnesite, and monohydrocalcite.” Ohhhhh what a surprise!!
I thought that was fairly easy cos most of the answer is in the question 🙂
Haha, yes, that is true!! We could have solved it within seconds!!
I’ll never forget the “moonmilk”. Would be a nice name for a sophisticated cocktail or smoothie, too!
Volcanocafe’s own cocktail 😕
One double Moonmilk with whipped cream, please!!
Could be a variation on “Moose Milk” as described by one of the crew of HMCS Iroquois.
From what I gather… it’s the closest you will get to a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Diaboleite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaboleite
This one is diabolical 😈
Worse to come!! 👿 🙂
😯
❗ 👿 😉
Bring it on. We will not be defeated by the Evil one 8)
Dammit that smiley thingy didnt work…do this one instead 😆
For Kelda
What do you find in a bovine lavatory?
Yuck….Slurry, Compost, manure, Fertilizer.. Sh*t?
Bullshit??
Shock, horror Sissel! 🙂
A riddle just for Alan – My child died by the sword. I may be gentle but I am strong and can take a lot of strain. Who am I?
Cow pat lava 😕
Rotating impeller fecal impact maneuver…
Bummer….
I finally got my ICQ account working again. Rather than make a new one, I wanted my old number. In my line of work, having a really low ICQ number is a mark of longevity on the Internet. I had lost one previous ICQ account that was in the six digits, but after innumerable moves and computer rebuilds, I had lost it. So, I have a seven digit one… and I really wanted to keep it.
After jumping through hoops in order to get the Email account that it was tied to turned back on (I know the admin) I got back into my ICQ account.
What do I see? Down at the bottom?
Notice that he’s not there.
I’ve mentioned it before, but just out of respect… here is a quick re-telling.
Tracer was an acquaintance of another friend of mine. Both “Cyborg” and myself had met him years ago through another friend. He operated a computer shop/store in Phuket Thailand. His actual name was Konrad and he was from (originally) the Netherlands. He had married a Thai local and lived there. I never met him face to face, but I had been in Phuket on a port call many years ago, so I knew what the area was like. Tracer lived in about as close to heaven as you can get scenery wise. Beautiful place. Granted, some of the scenery that we run across here is phenomenal… but at the time, that was how I felt about the way Phuket was topologically gifted.
Tracer managed to survived the tsunami, it took out the lower part of his shop, and I lost contact for a while. The problem that I had with Tracer was that he would want to chat at all hours of the day and I began to avoid using ICQ. Then I found out from Cyborg via Mel (another acquaintance that lives there) that Tracer managed to die. Motorcycle accident.
I feel bad about having shunned talking to him after a while.
God Bless tracer. RIP.
Bet that ran a chill down your spine. . .
Yeah, I tend to listen a lot more than I used to.
George Carlin on death “..but he was just here!”
Having worked in the Aerial Firefighting industry -and may yet go back, i know.
That Hotshot crew you just gave a tour of the plane to in Redmond, Or,the week before.
15 dead on Storm King mountain in Colorado. That’s when I stopped complaining about doing tours.
“Ask not for whom the Bell tolls.”
Within a month of reporting to my first ship, another new arrival was killed while participating in loading operations. (the latch on the loading arm wasn’t locked and the missile slid back and pinned him) He had just gotten married a week before.
I’ve had my own share of close calls… but stuff like that tends to make you wary of what you are working with…almost to the point of paranoia. In some cases, paranoia can be a life saver. (not the candy).
19 years later and several thousand miles worth of deployments under my belt, I was doing a de-install and was… paranoid. I put on Electrical Gloves, and Leather protectors, and face-shield in order to cut a wire, despite having the entire system tagged out and double checked.
The arc blew the end off of my pliers. I was fine… and pissed.
I have an idea what you mean… If I ever heard through the grapevine that Lee Dolo had died… Well I’d stop for a moment and remember him…He was just a guy from my home town.. all us rebels thought he was pretty fcukin’ cool…
Congratulations to the usual suspect(s) on the evil riddle! 😉
Someone recently mentioned the strong earthquake swarm in Georgia and this is how the Seismic Monitoring Centre of Georgia tries to calm the public:
http://seismo.iliauni.edu.ge/aboutEq/do_not_panic.php
The Georgian text above sais something like (my understanding of the giggle translation): Earthquakes cannot be predicted on a scientific ground.They are a natural process and people should not panic.
Tolbachik looking pretty this morning: http://oi45.tinypic.com/33way4y.jpg
& check out Stromboli: http://www.ct.ingv.it/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=214&lang=it
In case you missed it: http://oi46.tinypic.com/263xyt3.jpg
Wow!
End of year fireworks! 🙂
It’s almost died down to nothing after the Great Christmas burst.
I still think there is something to the OCS emission augmenting the Sulfate production from large Flood Basalt events.
But when you look at some measurements, despite the anecdotal evidence, it doesn’t always measure up.
Notice the monster drop around 1740. What caused that? The more lively erupitons that I found (VEI 4) are noted.
They don’t seem to line up with measured cooling events. Even the Laki event seems to lag behind the cooling.
Puzzled.
Well, 1740 was a leap year, the year when Rule Britannia was first performed, the year of ascension of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the town of Newton was incorporated as Wilmington, North Carolina. However, neither event seems to be a plausible cause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1740
There are references to something called “The Great Frost”, “Forgotten Irish Famine” or “Bliain An Áir” (“year of the slaughter“) that occurred in 1740. It seems that both Mt Asahi (eruption 1739, VEI???, volumes???) and Mt Tarumae (a.k.a. Shikotsu,1739, VEI 5, ~1 cu km DRE tephra) are considered possible culprits.
Like Lurking, puzzled…
GeoLurking has a post in here as a draft ( not published now)
He might chance some things or add to it. But it is going to be published soon.
The plan for the moment is… first post to go in on January 1st 2013 is one by KarenZ!
Another article of dubious veracity http://www.doonbleisce.com/The%20Great%20Frost%20in%20Ireland%20-%20%201740%20-%201741.htm claims that “During 1739 a great volcanic eruption on the remote Kamchatka peninsula” is responsible. The GVP lists two eruptions for Kamchatka in 1739; Tolbachik (VEI 2, central vent, explosive) and Shiveluch (VEI 3, central vent, explosive, lava dome extrusion), none of which are even remotely possible as the cause for “Year of the Slaughter”.
1739 might actually line up for the 1740 chill. I’ll have to look at that a bit closer tomorrow.
While I have scrounging the possibility of pre-eruption gas release, I did find an SO2 release in Kamchatka in September, but can’t tell where it actually came from. Kamchatka always seems to have something going on, so it really could have been any one of the volcanoes.
According to descriptions, February 1740 was the worst month both temperature- and death-wise as the mortality rate rose to three times above the norm. If it’s volcano-related, you can almost certainly exclude any eruption other than those of 1739.
It is likely that the cooling phase of the period 1739/1745 is of volcanic origin (culprit unknown) combined with other climatic events : http://unchartedterritory.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/1740-and-all-that/
There is a huge spike in Iceland between 1720 and 1740, acc. to Th. Thordarsson / G. Larsen, Volcanism in Iceland (2007), p.20 http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/papers2/Thordarson%20and%20Larsen%202007%20-%20Volcanism%20in%20Iceland.pdf , it seems one of the culprits is Grímsvötn.
There was the Mývatn fires at Krafla from 1724-29. Grímsvötn erupted 1725 and 1730. Öraefajökull erupted 1727-28.
So were there: Hekla 1725, Bárdarbunga 1726, Bárdarbunga 1729 and Krafla and Kverkfjöll the same year, Grímsvötn 1730. Jan Mayen 1732, Bárdarbunga 1739 again and then a repose period til 1746 (Krafla): http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/region.cfm?rnum=17&rpage=erupt
So I forgot Katla 1721 (VEI 5!) and one eruption of an anonymus volcano with unknown VEI.
BREAKING NEWS!
Ramesses III murdered! Suspect may have been located.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/19/mummy-murder-mystery-solved/
And Herod the Great had a slower, more painful death…
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Opinion+What+killed+Herod+Great/7701195/story.html#ixzz2GUheTjyW
From Wikipedia: Fournier Gangrene
Herod the Great was about 70 when he died.
Oh Lurking I love your OT comments! There is nothing like a glimpse into history to see the human condition has made little change in the last 2000 years or more….. I think Pleurisy is a better option than Herod’s afflicton. reading that made me feel positively healthy 😀 😀 😀 .
I was a little bored yesterday and facebook had asked “How are you Diana”?….I posted this……”.Pleurisy is not conducive to the seasonal festivities. To reduce the pain it is best to try not to breathe. Laughter is a real killer and sleeping sitting upright is excellent in producing that fashionable smokey eyes , heavily grey shadowing!
I have got to the stage of actually wanting to be able to go grocery shopping again!”……..
Iceland is so quiet….I am glad I have not missed anything dramatic. Hopefully I’ll be back later when I have recovered from this ascent of our staircase and had a bit of a rest 😀
Hope you’ll get better very soon!
Meanwhile, Iceland has not really been quiet – though volcanically more or less. There was a blizzard in big parts of the country: http://www.ruv.is/sarpurinn/frettir/29122012-33
At the moment, there are still a lot of roads more or less closed in the West Fjords. There have also been problems there with electricity. Which means some are also without heating, because in this region is not such a lot of hot water as the region is not within the active rift zone.
But the weather is getting better now.
Volcanically the most interesting parts are still Bárdarbunga – which is calming down now – , and Bakkahlaup hot temperature area in the northeast which is still rather lively: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/gil.gif
The Icelandic people have the habit of weather a bit like this, though there has not been so much snow and storm since 1995 in the West Fjords and at Snaefellsnes. Nobody was hurt, anyway til yesterday evening when the news were on tv.
On the contrary, one familiy from Snaefellsnes, listened to IMO forecast and sent her daughter who was with child, strax to Reykjavík hospital where she gave birth one day later – her mother was a bit disappointed, she had hoped that it would still take some days, til the roads would be passable again and she could take part in the birth of the grandchild. Skandinavian women are rather young normally when they have children in comparison to other Europeans, so that it is normal to be grandmother at an age of 45, 50.
Inge Is Mila planning on broadcasting the news fireworks again this year?
It looks like that, but I don’t know anyone at Mila.
Oh! Never trust a group of women with time on their hands!! This story has the makings for a good Hollywood drama.
Even back then, men were wusses over women as the poor prince was punished for the crimes of the mother. When are we going to recognise that woman is the deadlier of the species and take steps to protect ourselves accordingly? The 19th century was indeed a Golden Age of the human species, forever lost!
Jaja … (Icelandic!) 😉
Just doing a quick round the world tourof Volcanic webcams and found this on the Jan Mayan island, Beerenberg Volcano cam 😀
A very Happy New year to all of you on Jan Mayan Island. 😀
http://www.jan-mayen.no/webcamera2.htm
Most probably dark there now all day round. 🙂
Just to warn you in advance! The last years Mila Iceland set up a cam showing the fireworks over Reykjavik greeting the new year. Not sure if this is planned for this year too, but our icelanders might be able to answer that. Here is what happened last year. http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/new-years/
I can really recomend watching this.
I could provide a “very special” Name That Lava riddle. Anyone interested?
Yes, of course! Let it be evil. 🙂
I can supply a “name that volcano” special new year video if you like….
Yes please.
you got mail
You got another from me. 🙂
Passing by Linz Hbf. right now!
Happy new year to all “volcano friends”!
Aww have a nice stay in Austria and Happy New Year soon!!
New post with a “speical riddle” is up!
:):):):)