Photograph courtesy of Dr Carmen Morataya.
Having the brain rebuilt from top down every Friday never get’s old. I do not know how you guys are doing since I am bad at both riddles and recognizing lavas and volcanoes.
But it is fascinating to witness how the blood hounds of the Volcano Café unerringly zeroes in on the pray. This week I want the name of the lava, the volcano and the name of the local fast food. So, 3 points to be had all in all. I will of course ding when someone has scored.
Tomorrow, or the day after I will post you an explanatory article.
Herðubreið
Photograph by Eggert Nordahl under permission.
Herðubreið is a tabletop volcano (tuya) in Iceland that has been active during the last few years with repeated earthquake swarms and magmatic emplecements. Supposedly the volcano is a defunct part of the Askja volcano. Evidently it is not as defunct as previously believed, and there is quite a lot pointing to it not being a part of Askja.
So, last night I proposed that we should do something with the volcano since it is rather poorly investigated. Ontop of the two questions above we can also have a bit of fun with the youngish looking strato volcano on top of the tabletop mountain. Here is the question, have it erupted after the last glacial period?
I thought we could do this as a case of crowd science. We have access to some equipment, we have access to a lot of people with various expertise, so we could actually collectively make a fairly nice piece of scientific work on Herðubreið.
So, in another word, I propose that Volcano Café officially adopt Herðubreið as our project. Now and then we should post status reports on our progress, if anyone feel up to it, being the collector and editor of what has been said please do not hesitate to come forward! Herðubreið and Volcano Café needs your services.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
CARL
Name Those Volcanoes Riddle
The riddle contained the mixed up clues to 2 volcanoes … 1 point awarded for each …
At the intersection of Rts 36 and 119 Peter was totally over come by the glowing clouds; then Bill, Andie and Chris arrived to cover the celebrations!
1 point Sa’ke for Mount Pelee … “Peter was totally over come by the glowing clouds”
Glowing clouds was the English translation of a French term nuée ardente first used to describe the pyroclastic flows of Mount Pelee that engulfed the town of St Pierre in 1902 killing 30,000 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pel%C3%A9e
1 point KarenZ for Candlemass Island … “At the intersection of Rts 36 and 119; then Bill, Andie and Chris arrived to cover the celebrations!”
The clue pointed to the movie Groundhog day (1993) set in Punxsutawney, starring Bill (Murray), Andie (MacDowell) and Chris (Elliott). Groundhog Day is the US term for Candlemass Day.
http://www.fisheaters.com/customstimeafterepiphany3.html
http://www.volcanolive.com/candlemas.html
KILGHARRAH
VolcanoCafé 
if we have any readers from Los Angeles, California area where bush fires are causing damage and mayhem ,I wish you and yours to be safe and not have too much loss.
The fire was about 10 miles north of my location so all we got was a bit of really bad smoky air on Friday. I think Tgmcoy is going to be busy this summer based on what we have seen so far (and it is only May). Conditions turned yesterday (wind off the ocean) which helped contain the fire. We live at the end of Malibu Canyon so have experienced numerous fires over the years but were lucky with this one. The whole Santa Monica mountain range in this area has a volcanic background and I can remember the climbing the “volcano hill” that was behind our house when growing up. Here is a bit of history on the area http://malibucomplete.com/mc_geography_physical.php
Thanks for the info on that area-photos surprised me though never been there but imagined it much more populated. That’s wild looking terrain!
Well if one drives just a few miles south you are in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. The area is mostly parkland which saves it from being built up (not that it would be easy to build on) and it is prone to fires. If you look closely at the picture of the canyon in with the ocean in the background you will see a large house built like a castle on a bluff over the canyon. Well, it is no longer there as it burned down in the 2007 fire that came through the canyon that year!
Hekla very quiet and we have lost the strain at Burfell. meanwhile Katla area is having a wee grumble…. http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/rju.gif
Gorgeous misty sunrise at Hekla right now: http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/hekla/
Dedicated to Hekla….
aw! Blocked in our country 😦
lovely Poetry as well as lyrics. Thanks Lurking 🙂
Hi Diana,
you are making the most of your connection, while it lasts, I will miss your way with words
Or hope she can connect using her husband’s new ISP 🙂
blocked in Oz
Fer them that be blocked. Search for “And She Was” by the Talking Heads. You’ll find the song ye be searching for.
Caveat: Not a pirate. Been listening to Ron White. (not a pirate either)
He had a missive relating that Nasa has been doing research to see if there was a danger with women experiencing PMS while in orbit. His conclusion “Hell yes! In a weightless environment, they can fly!” (Paraphrased to remove the profanity)
Meanwhile, here’s some German techno music.
This is the inebriated me talking. ” I feel for “Slash” formerly of Guns ‘n Roses. He’s an accomplished and skilled guitarist. I saw him playing with Billy Gibbons at some multi-musician gizmo, he can hold his own. But I also saw a rendition that he did of ‘whole lot of love’, a Led Zeppelin standard. It was allegedly for a birthday celebration he had. The instrumental side of things was quite good… but the singer. Probably the most pathetic and effeminate stand in for Robert Plant that you could find. It almost seemed as if the singer were trying to take a crap but the no talent androgynous critter couldn’t quite bring himself to it. ”
Though I think “Slash” is quite talented, I don’t think he quite has the nuances of other players. He seems to power his way through the riffs. (Good for G’nR, but without Axl Rose to stumble through the lyrics and draw attention to himself, people will notice.)
I swear, I saw one of their later performances televised live. Axl would sing a line, bend down and noticeably stare at the teleprompter, then sing another line… rinse, repeat.
For GnR fans “Wah!” I don’t care.
While we wait for her Ladyship to upchuck, here’s a brilliant voice, singing excellent lyrics to a wonderful tune with, perhaps, the greatest introduction to a song EVER.
Try his old friend Kinky Friedman… If you like this you will love Kinkster.
More guesses on the lave: rhyolitic tephra, ignimbrite, ….. still looking 😉
Not mentioned ballistic lava bombs, ash and pumice 😉
While I have not had much success on the lava (despite the fact that the last eruption was in 1924), I have found lots on the hazards: debris avalanches (which are likely to be large) and lahars.
& craters are from phreatic eruptions.
fast food could be pollo camparo
* campero
talking about food. this is hilarious.
Edit: Hello Kelda! The link must be in a separate line. You can not write text and then paste the link on the same line.
/Carl
how do you make the link to youtube appear like a small window in the post rather than just a link?
Hi Kelda,
Should appear if you just copy and paste the link of the page where you actually watch the video…
thats what i did, but it didnt work.
try again just as a test.
ha, it worked that time hit the return key before pasting link.
I think the link has to be at one line
o/t
yesterday in Belgium a train derailed carrying acrylonitrile. This forms hydrogen cyanide above 20°C:
Mornin All,
Just caught up, am back from Sicily now, Spica your ash will be winging it’s way as soon as I can get to the post orifice…
Re the new layout, much better on my desktop than the Kindle I’ve been using while away, I do miss the recent comments sidebar, but I can live with that…
@ Carl, I didn’t recieve the Dragon mail, so can you please forward it to me.
It is in your mailbox.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
Thanks Carl,
Recieved and in the pondering box, will let you know…
BTW you may remember me from such articles as BoB’s Back Story, and Plotting for Beginners 🙂
I do remember you quite well 🙂
By the way, loved your “Write some more post”!
La Gomera is a very safe place to be if the east coast of America were to suddenly fall into the sea and cause a devasting tsunami in the Canary Islands…
No eruptions in millions of years, it’s all steep sided and plutonic emplacements… As long as you weren’t in one of the valleys…
Wonder why La Gomera is extinct when the other islands have had more recent activity 😕
According to the AVO Cleveland volcano started erupting yesterday at 13.00 UTC.
Cleveland is apparently continuing Low level activity.
Thanks Mike,
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/Cleveland.php
Webcam, but nothing to be seen at the moment…
Well maybe I can bring back a bit of Cleveland ash from Anchorage hmmm….
If I can get it past TSA….
but would ba a heck of an eruption to get to Anchorage, of course.. 🙂
That could not be correct, must of resized or data error. If not Hekla looks very jumpy.
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/hekla/thensla_hekla.html
IMO have restarted their machines so it looks very “loud”. There is a small drop but they have often happened on HEK. I hope they BUR up and running again soon!
I still have the internet but no land line phone…. 😀 just adding early post over this side in case Carl missed it.
😀
How does Hekla KNOW I can still see what she’s up to when I didn’t know I could ?????
Diana Barnes
May 5, 2013 at 05:31
Darn it..I looked at that Volcano but thought it wasnt right! ButI was right with the phreatic nature of the Volcano 😀 Lava in pictures is ash,tuff, and volcanic bombs.
Local fast food… tortillas, mainly with fillings of beans or meats. Fresh fruit is a favourite snack tamales and empanadas. These fried pastries usually consist of corn meal, potatoes and meat….Sounds also like the fast food chains like McDonalds and Burger King are also there but expensive!
Throwing this Ot out there-I’d like to know any preferences in a 4G phone. My needs are
fair midding photos, good internet ,. not much of a gamer, rugged helps…
-there is still a Motorola “Brick” in the bottom of a certain retardant tank in Arizona..;;- )
It should be able to make actual calls, sms, camera, MP3-player, streaming Spotify… And have at least a week of standby time.
Only one phone that meets those requirements nowadays. Hello Nokia Lumia 720.
I do not give much for todays phones. Not even 24 hours of battery charge. Blekh!
Actually, this helps much, thanks….
always had a soft spot for Noika. products in
general-best phone I ever had was a Noika..
Verizon didn’t have them for a while…
I love them, finns don’t make the best music. But their phones are really made for endurance. And they take the cold like no other phones. And now that they have solved the battery time problem for smart phones I am soooo happy.
Beaware that the 4G phones could download allot of data in minutes and could increase ur bills for a while. Streaming is bad and OS updates too. I would wait a while till the next Qtd at least, price will go down and the new 4G phones will have more features. Unless you do stock trading or are in IT, for myself, It allot of ask for “why would I want that feature”
Sofar Karen has 1,5 dingZ.
She has gotten them for naming Acatenango, and the Dacite. The Dacite is though filled with something… And regarding the local fast food. People seem to be going for delicacies and posher food stuffs then the one I am going for. Or foods that are generic to the entire mid americas.
Diana, you are coming back on you Hubbies new glistening Internet aren’t you?
Totally unlikely but does the Dacite form a dome for Pico Mayor? So it is filled with Pico Mayor?
food could be be Shucos (“dirties”), the Guatemalan version of a hot dog, which includes guacamole.
nah..that’s carp.
What about Andesite, although i’m sure that’s been said already?
Volcanism at Acatenango is primarily of an explosive andesitic type. Eruptions about 1900 years ago from Pico Mayor and 5000 years ago from Yepocapa produced widespread ash and pyroclastic flow deposits. However, since then only minor explosive phreatic activity has been documented at sites between the two summits in 1924-1927 and 1972. – from here – http://www.photovolcanica.com/VolcanoInfo/Fuego/Fuego.html
On some days I have to massage my inner nerd with the nerdiest man alive, George Takei.
His sense of humour is, well… Hm… Yeah… 🙂
Food: tamales, tortillas or empanadas?
The torn flank of Acatenango: http://www.photovolcanica.com/VolcanoInfo/Fuego/Gua07_0636.jpg
Food: tapas 😕
Dunno what’s in the dacite. My eyesight is not that good 😉 But it might be:
phenocrystic amphibole
& found some reference to gypsum.
Dingeth be Thy Name!
Amphibole bearing Dacite.
the food – could be one invented for me – Caldo de huevos, an egg-based Consome typically eaten as a remedy for hangovers. 🙂
Anyone mentioned:
Tamales de frijol con chiltepe
Chicharrones y carnitas,
Tostadas de guacamol, frijol, o salsa,
Tacos de carne o pollo,
tortillas
Yuca con chicharrón,
Paches
BTW you can also get fish and chips there 😉
Also pupusas and arepas.
I’m sorely tempted to copy & paste the whole local food list from Wiki, but that’s cheating. And I’m sure the answer has nought to do with the Coca plant – bordering on cheeky there, no offense intended, just my warped imagination running wild again.
Nah, that would be the clue for Colombian volcanism…
What is the famous local herb that is so popular to serve at Record Label Parties.
red hot chilli peppers, but that’s not a herb, so not correct?
Chilli poppers? Chilli pepppers stuffed with cream cheese?
Oh those are so tasty if you roast them in the fireplace… Gotta have me some of those tomorrow when I will venture out for some cream cheese.
Salsa
It’s probably a hamburger, beefburger, fries, burrito or other fast food shared with the US 😉
Nope… I found a really unusual version of a rather common fast food.
You would actually have an easier time of finding an equivalent around my neck of the woods then in the US:
nachos
with cili and chees of course 🙂
*With Chili & cheese…
three bean chili..fart city 🙂
black bean chili or black bean soup. Maybe even Frijoles?
Meat balls 😕
Hungry now … so off to make dinner 🙂
Nah, have not found an abundance of meatballs in Guatemala. 🙂
tostilocos?
Not found any special fast food other than what’s been mentioned however found these good places to eat in Guatemala…Lava Terrace Bar & Burgers. 😀 Pizza Grizzly 😀
has anyone mentioned Elotes: Roast ears of corn with cheese, lime, chili and butter or mayonnaise? Do they do Guatemalan Smörgåsbord then Carl? 🙂 Guatemalen sandwhiches Pirujo and it takes its name from the bread’s name. Pirujos and shucos are the two native sandwiches from Guatemala….. I could go on 😀
Yes they do Guatemalan Smörgåsbord 😉
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