Nisyros, view into the caldera with Stefanos Crater. (© stupiduglyfool, via mapcarta.com)
How many of the millions of sunshine-hungry European travellers to Greece would have known that there is the attraction of a fuming active volcano in their favorite holiday destination? And I am not talking famous Santorini here, but a little island with only a few hundred residents in the far south-east of the country, near the Turkish main land. Continue Reading
Volcán Chico, cinder cone on the north-eastern rim of the caldera Sierra Negra (© Michael R Perry, via wikimedia).
Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands has piqued our attention once again. Reports of renewed activity are getting more convincing by the month. Here we are again – as advertised – at a “second largest caldera” or, more often even “second largest crater” in the world”… NOT! It seems that everyone accepts Yellowstone with its Continue Reading
Simplified map of volcanic fields in the western US that have been active during the Quaternary. http://geosphere.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/2/391/figures-only
Panorama of Menengai Crater. (© Stefano & Michael Amani, kenyavacanze.org)
If our reader Cate hadn’t mentioned it in a comment I would never have thought of writing about Menengai Crater. It is one of the rift volcanoes in western central Kenya, within the wonderful and strange landscape of the Kenyan Rift valley. Continue Reading
Deception Island. Neptunes Bellows, harbor entrance. Rest of caldera to the right. http://travelvista.net/deception-island
Mount Unzen from the west. Looking over Fugen-dake dome toward the east. http://рчц-дфо.рф/unzen-japan.php
Overhead view of Guacha caldera in the Altiplano – Puna Volcanic complex http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/book/export/html/587
The pit crater Changouméni (created 1918?) in the northern lobe of the Karthala caldera is filled to the brim with new lava. 17/01/2007. (© OVK)
Aerial view of the Capelinhos volcano. (© Herbert Terra, via Panoramio)
Kuwae Caldera looking north to Epi Island – http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=257070
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