The Amsterdam St Paul hotspot is one of the weaker hotspots around. It has created the St Paul and Amsterdam Islands, the now active Boomerang Seamount (last known eruption 1995), and an elongated chain of seamounts called the Chain of Dead Poets. These are remnants of the eruptive wake of the Amsterdam St Paul hotspot…
Updated 13 Sep 2012, see end of article. In logic, an assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts. (Wikipedia) Back around May of this year, Carl asked me to do a series of simulations using KWare’s Heat3D, a program written…
Sometimes a bit of honest digging will pay off in the oddest ways. Trying to utilize an unexpected free day I decided to find an alternative explanation for the uplift associated with the Hamarinn volcano. A long shot as good as any other to pursue on a rather grey day. While on the prowl for…
When I was a child I grew up with Krafla. Not so odd perhaps since it erupted for nine years. In my childhood mind it seemed like Krafla divided Iceland in two parts, and I dreamt up weird bridges spanning the fire fountains that in my dreams spanned the entire length of the island. Come…
Edinburgh – home of the Scottish Parliament, Military Tattoo, Princes Street and gardens, Scott memorial, Murrayfield, Valvona and Crolla’s food emporium, sundry pubs (!), volcanoes…Eh, volcanoes? Surprising as it may be to some people, Edinburgh plays host to a great variety of igneous rocks. The most obvious and in our case, the most interesting, are…
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