How to kill a weekend. As some of you have observed, last week I asked for anyone running across a caldera size and eruption volume to give me a quick shout here on the forums. Ostensibly, I was going to compile a spreadsheet in order to look at Hagstrum’s hotspot list compared to large caldera…
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…
As most of you know 2012 had up until a couple of days ago been rather free from significant eruptions, but that has now changed. As the ash and smoke starts to clear we now know that the explosions at both Whaakari and Tongariro was not the main events. Tongariro The eruption that happened during…
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…
I was always fascinated by volcanoes but living in Austria, my opportunity to see and study them was limited. The internet gave me a totally new possibility, which i neglected to notice for the longest time. Then in january 2010, i came across Dr. Erik Klemettis blog Eruptions, while looking for images of volcanoes. He…
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