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Category Archives: volcanoes
Scenic Saturday: Water and Lava in the Oregon High Cascades
Today we launch the second major stage of our summer adventure – departing for the UK and Ireland later this evening. But a week ago today, we were in my PhD field area, the McKenzie River watershed in the central … Continue reading
Scenic Saturday: Mount Hood
We’ve both had a great week in Oregon, with some science (and, for Chris, some field excursions with Lockwood in the Coast Ranges) at the start of the week and some more recreational explorations at the end. This was the … Continue reading
Scenic Saturday: White Island before the spiny lava invasion
Last week, Erik drew my attention to this odd spiny lava dome spotted on New Zealand’s White Island. It is rather strikingly weird, like the country that brought us the Lord of the Rings had decided to now bring us … Continue reading
Hotspot volcanism on Hawaii: textbook vs reality
Just like an iceberg, the parts of the Hawaiian Islands that you see above the ocean surface are dwarfed in volume by the stuff below the waves. For a start, any volcano that forms in the middle of the Pacific … Continue reading
Geological maps: still interesting even when there’s only one rock type
The USGS, in collaboration with NASA, have just released a geological map of Jupiter’s ultra-volcanically active moon Io, based on images from the Voyager and Galileo probes. It is a thing of beauty. The sheer variety of different geological units … Continue reading
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