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Mount Rainier development
Welcome to our April-1 story which has the untruth, the whole untruth and nothing but the untruth. Nothing in here is real. Although even that is not true. The mentioned rocket propulsion methods all exist or are under development. Even the rocket railgun launcher, which we carefully made up for this post, suffered from a…
The censured volcano
The only truly dead volcanoes are the ones whose existence we have forgotten about. The Netherlands is not known for its volcanoes. There is a volcano with a Dutch name: Beerenberg, an impressive stratovolcano on Jan Mayen, but the volcano itself is in fact Norwegian (another nation not known for its volcanoes). But dig down…
Crisis on Ioto
Introduction (Albert) Iwo Jima is famous. The battle between the US and Japanese forces are well remembered – by both sides. Before the war, about 1000 people lived here. After the war, none. There is a military base only. The beaches are filled with rusting hulks of ships, sunk in the long battle. And that…
Rain and volcanoes
Albert’s article Volcanoes and rain explores the possible links between volcanic eruptions and subsequent periods of wet weather. But there is another side to this story: rain can, in turn, have an impact on volcanic activity, and maybe even trigger eruptions! The possibility of rainfalls causing eruptions has actually been speculated long ago. Georg Forster
Lavatars: Lavatrix and LavaLand
This, of course, is our annual April-1 news story, not all aspects of which are equally reliable. The picture of an unshaped lava mount is a hornito from the Mount Ulu eruption. Indeed, they can form from a crustal crack above a lava tube. Shaping by sound is possible, as explained by Physics Girl, but…
An Iceland Enigma – The Thórsmörk Ignimbrite
This is a repost of a guest post by volcanologist Dave McGarvie, first published here in 2017. Dave is currently associated with the Lancaster Environment Centre of Lancaster University; at the time of writing this post he was working at the Open University. He studies volcanoes in Iceland and Chile and can be found at…