Author Archives: Chris Rowan

The Jabal al-Tair eruption in close-up

I seem to be having a fairly volcanic week, so whilst we’re on the subject of volcanoes in the news, someone over at Nasa’s Earth Observatory got a satellite to snap Jabal al-Tair in the Red Sea, which erupted at … Continue reading

Categories: volcanoes

Defusing Mount Kelud

Indonesia is certainly not a destination for those wanting the geologically quiet life; its close proximity to a subduction zone is a recipe not just for large, potentially tsunami generating, earthquakes, but also a significant number of explosive volcanoes. Mount … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, volcanoes

I like rocks and whisky…

…but rocks with whisky might be taking it a little too far.
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Categories: bloggery, gifts and gadgets

Accretionary Wedge #2 is up

The theme for this edition of the geoblogging carnival is ‘How the Earth Could Kill You’. Head over to All of My Faults Are Stress Related for mass extinctions, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides galore.

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A tale of two volcanoes

The theme for the second edition of The Accretionary Wedge is “Total Destruction”. Anyone who has studied geology knows that there is no shortage of things on, within, and even outside the Earth that are capable of making things decidedly … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, volcanoes