Heard and McDonald Islands, Australia

Emperor penguins on Heard Island. Big Ben volcano is in the background. Image courtesy ABC Australia, Jan. 2019

Volcan Almolonga and Cerro Quemado, Guatemala

Volcan Cerro Quemado with most recent lava flow in the foreground. Image courtesy Guatemala.com

The Double Caldera of Mount Suswa, Kenya

Mount Suswa from the rim of the oldest caldera. Image courtesy African Spice Safaris

Introduction to Volcanic activity on Mercury

Perspective view looking NW over the Caloris Basin. Pantheon Fossae, radial dike swarm in the foreground. The Impact crater just offset to the right of the swarm is 41 km in diameter. Red and white are higher topography; blues are lower. Total vertical difference is 4 km. Image courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU / APL) / Carnegie Institution of Washington/Goddard Space Flight Center

Mono-Inyo Craters – the Most Recent Activity at Long Valley, CA

Annotated satellite image of Mono-Inyo Craters. Mammoth Mountain dome domplex is at the bottom of the image. Mono Lake is at the top. Long Valley is to the east (right) of Mammoth Mountain. Image courtesy Wikipedia Mono-Inyo Craters

Hokkaido 4 – The Akan Caldera, Hokkaido, Japan

Annotated topographic map of Akan caldera, caldera lake, and post-caldera volcanoes. Lake Kussharo is off the image at the upper right. Image courtesy Plate Tectonic Narod.ru.

The Vice King of the Caucasus – KAZBEK 🇬🇪

Mt. Kazbek, Gergeti Trinity Church and Gergeti village below. – Says one travel website: “Climb to the Gergeti Trinity Church. This is the number 1 thing to do in Kazbegi – going to Kazbegi and not going to this Church would be… strange”. Quite understandable, looking at this picture postcard view, isn’t it?  (© Jazzanova, via Wikimedia)

I remember, as a teen, I loved rummaging in my mother’s enormous picture postcard collection – what a treasure! There was a photo in it that I never forgot in my life: An old Orthodox church sitting on a ridge high above a village and, behind the church, the humongous

Manda-Inakir, Rifting Volcanism in the Afar

Manda – Inakir recent volcanism. The Kammourta volcano is flagged at the red pointer. It is the 1928 – 1929 most recent eruption from this system. Multiple lava flows at center to the south of the main line of lava flows is the Dabbahu Manda Hararo rifting event of 2005 – 2010. The Andabba plain is to the lower right of the image. Google Maps screen capture.

Hokkaido 3 – The Kutcharo Caldera, Hokkaido, Japan

Lake Kussharo in winter. Note that the lake is not frozen. Image courtesy Ten via YouTube.

 

This is the second of three posts on the East Hokkaido Caldera Field.  This post is centered on the Kutcharo (Kussaro or Kuttyaro) volcanic complex.

RECLUS the recluse – Patagonia 1

Boat cruising in the Amalia fjord to obtain ground cores in search of tephra from the Reclus volcano, to prove a recent activity which could be related to the dynamics of the Amalia glacier. 07/2014 (© Godiespi, via Wikimedia)

Seeing that SERNAGEOMIN recently has included the Reclus volcano into group III of the assessment of their volcanoes, according to hazards they may pose to the population, I had another go at finding out more about it.