Airborne view of Mount Hakone volcano. Lake Ashi in the foreground. Image courtesy Wiki
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Posts about volcanoes mainly in and around the Pacific Ocean, except Americas.
Bayonnaise Rocks. Aerial photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons, 2015
Ontake shortly after phreatic eruption on Sept 27. Photo courtesy EOS.org, 2017
Mount Awu from a local village. May be Tahuna. Image courtesy Volcanomapping blog
Mount Banahaw (or Banahao) is located on the island of Luzon, some 80 km SE of Manilla. At 2,158 m high, it is the tallest of a group of a stratovolcano complex that included San Cristobal (1,470 M) and Banahaw de Lucban (1,870 M).
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.
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 Continue Reading
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.
Mashu caldera in winter with Kamuinupuri to the right of the photo and the Kamuishu dome in the middle of the lake. Image courtesy Wiki
The Toya – Usu post led me to the interesting volcanic history of Hokkaido, Japan. Found a multiple caldera complex in eastern Hokkaido with three calderas in close proximity to one another. Will write about these for the next few posts.
View over the caldera of Nemrut Dağı. (© Emin Noyan; screengrab from GEarth photo)
The spectacular caldera of Nemrut Dağı: light snow cover enhances all the volcanic features inside. (NASA image ISS001-E-6354 taken on 2001.02.13)
Preliminary note:
I have started work on this post long before the latest unacceptable political developments, so, it is pure coincidence that it’s getting published just now. In the region around Nemrut Dağı live Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian people. I wish peace for them all – and hopefully, my post will inspire interest in this wonderful part of the world.
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Nemrut Dağı* volcano has so many interesting features within and outside its caldera that it would probably take a several-week-long holiday do visit and explore them all. It has produced many colourful layers in ignimbrites during its various, mainly Plinian eruptions, as well as lava domes and obsidian flows, open fissures, steam chimneys, lava caves, what have you. I think this will become my favourite volcano! Continue Reading
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