Okmok volcano in the eastern Aleutian Islands is erupting. The image above was taken by flight attendant Kelly Reeves of Alaska Airlines on July 13, 2008. The volcano is a nested caldera with numerous cones inside the main peak.
This is inside Cone E with its own small lake. The walls consist of layers of lava, spatter, tephra and cross cutting feeder dykes or feeder conduits for magma's ascent to the surface. This image was taken by Christina Neal in September, 2004 and reproduced courtesy of the Alaska Volcano Observatory/USGS.
The eruption is continuing.
There seems to be a lot of volcanic activity in the world lately.
ReplyDeleteAnne Widdicombe's been hitting those beans again.
ReplyDeleteTwo in Chile, one in Rabaul, Hawaii, Indonesia, Mexico but Mt. St. Helens has settled down. They don't call the Pacific the ring of fire for nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe old girl's okay, you rotter, she has a great sense of humour and she's older than me.
Pretty pissy if you ask me. Give me a pyroclastic eruption or nothing.
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ReplyDeleteThe old girl is not okay. She is an obnoxious, right wing tory with a face like an old wardrobe.
Geez Ladlitter, look at the size of that caldera in which the cone is sitting, now that was a pyroclastic eruption. I'm still sus about St. Helens though, after 4 years of rumbling and mound building in the crater, it settles down.
ReplyDeleteFleetwood, I bow to your knowledge of obnoxious right wing Tories.
There's plenty of undersea volcanoes blowing their collective tops, too, apparently, warming the oceans up a tad :(
ReplyDelete"I bow to your knowledge of obnoxious right wing Tories."
ReplyDeleteMost of which is intimate, seeing as they've been screwing me for years.
The earth has to blow off steam occasionally better than just losing the plot
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