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Katla: My First Love

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Published: July 12, 2025 13:07

It seemed like yesterday, the day I first discovered volcanic winter while conducting research on the infamous 1993 “storm of the century,” and some passing weather enthusiast had brought up Pinatubo and volcanic winter, and from that moment, I would delve…

The White Mountain, Úytaahkoo or Mount Shasta

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Published: July 6, 2025 13:38

This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US? Volcanic activity in North America is surprisingly infrequent.…

Volcanoes: limits to the growth

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Published: June 29, 2025 20:15

The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above what sea level used to be). It doesn’t look much: the volcano…

The Vredefort impact

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Published: June 13, 2025 18:00

The centre of South Africa is an amazing place. The long drive from Cape Town in-land is exciting for the first two hours, while you climbing up through the mountains, past vineyards and valleys full of fynbos. Once on the high interior plateau of South…

Time for komatiite

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Published: June 7, 2025 18:51

People mellow with age. (At least, most of us do.) The emotions of youth become less all-important and less demanding of our attention. Young people feel that every perceived slight needs addressing. The heat goes to the head and mistakes are made. Older…

Gold!

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Published: May 24, 2025 10:27

Rainbow’s end It is an amazing and powerful image. The wide lava fountain in the caldera like a wall flower in full bloom, with the cloud of volcano seeds above, the lava flowing from the bleeding flower, slowly re-filling one of the largest holes on…

Istanbul and the Marmara Sea

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Published: May 12, 2025 15:32

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the wrong word) the American plate from the continental edge of the…

The volcanic dusk of Venus. Part I.

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Published: April 25, 2025 18:09

The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little longer until I can get an extended period of free time. Today…

Magma rising

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Published: April 18, 2025 15:08

In 1864, three people set out on the journey of a life time. Starting at Snaefellsjokull, Hans, Axel and Otto descended into the crater, found openings to the depth and started on a journey to the centre of the Earth. At least, so Jules Verne told us in…

A new large open conduit lava lake at Nyamuragira

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Published: April 7, 2025 12:00

Report by Jesper Sandberg Forewords 2025 has so far been an exciting year with volcanoes, definitely so with Kilauea which is in many ways Earth’s most impressive volcano. It continues its caldera filling episodes at the previous Halemaumau crater area. If…