Richie, one of our readers emailed in a good question that is a good starting point for a brief update on Bárðarbunga. “Could you do an article comparing this intrusion to others? Looking at the post it appears that it is almost 40 Km long but how wide is it and in terms of volume.…
How do the insides of a volcano look like? Most volcanoes form a cone, as you can see in the graphics above. During an eruption the volcano flings out material which builds up, layer upon layer, and often forms this form of landscape. There are different types of cones: stratocones, spatter cones, ash cones, tuff cones, and cinder cones. What a volcano…
As time goes by we understand more and more about the activity under El Hierro. The Canarian Hotspot has several plumeheads reaching up under the volcanically active islands in the Island chain. It seems that for unknown reasons the activity has changed at depth so that El Hierro has become far more active than previously.…
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