One of the reasons I do this, is because as I was growing up, having an interest in things Geophysical/Astrophysical, there was always a search for the “wow” factor. Not everyone’s “wow” sense is geared the same… and in some cases, the scale of stuff that people are familiar with has a lot to say…
When it formed around 21,000 years ago the Corona tube came to an end when the lava flow reached the sea. In the subsequent post-glacial period the vast ice-caps retreated, raising the levels of the world’s oceans. As sea levels rose so the outer reaches of the tunnel became inundated. Sea water penetrated into the…
Lanzarote ranks as one of the most obviously volcanic places on the planet. The island is liberally sprinkled with craters, cones and lava fields. The dry, frost-free climate means that volcanic features weather only slowly, and vegetation has had a hard time gaining any meaningful foothold on the land. Around 15.5 million years ago the…
In part I we found the main bands of a excavation here in SW Iceland: – dark band of Veidivötn 1477 – double white layer band of Hekla from 1341 (or Öraefajökull 1362) and Hekla 1104 – dark band of Vatnaöldur 870 (called the “Settlement Ash”). – thick white layer of Hekla 3 (around 1000…
This week I was lucky enough to have a recently dug square hole (10m per 10m, about 2 meter deep) some 200 meters from my house in Southwest Iceland. Needless to say I spend the past bright summer evenings of Iceland inside this hole, which has nothing else but dirt and rocks. To us, volcano…
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