[caveat: this is my opinion and in no way should be used for any decision-making] Given the level of disruption caused by the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull there has been an inevitable level of concern from many readers/commenters on the likelihood of future air travel plans being affected by any eruption in Bardarbunga. Unfortunately we…
While August 1st marks the beginning of autumn and harvest time in the Gaelic culture, Carl was spending a fortune to snatch the last fan of Sweden to survive the heatwave. Everyone else´s brains also seem to have melted down, so here are just a few photographic impressions snatched from Flickr and NASA in order to…
Hanauma Crater The Hanauma Crater was created during the Honolulu volcano series. The volcanic vents that formed Hanauma Crater opened on the seafloor about 32,000 years ago. Upwelling magma vaporized the ocean water and steam explosions atomized the magma into fine ash. The explosions built cones of ash, which solidified into tuff. The eruptions shattered the coral…
Punchbowl Crater is a product of the Honolulu Volcano Series. It is a tuff cone that was formed 75,000 – 100,000 years ago from the ejection of hot lava through cracks in the old coral reefs which, at the time, extended to the foot of the Koolau Mountain Range. Like Diamond Head, it is considered monogenic, meaning it was a…
Sorry, chocoholics this is not about chocolate or cake 😦 (although, as this is Volcanocafe, it could be!). No, we are looking at arc-to-continent collision round the Banda Sea 🙂 I continued my plotting of Indonesian earthquakes eastward, this time choosing the Banda Sea where the “swirly bit” on the map looks interesting; and, is…
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