Giant’s Causeway is a huge deposit of columnar basalt found in County Antrim near the tip of Northern Ireland. The predominantly hexagonal-shaped columns were formed some 50 million years ago by cooling lava. This view looks inland from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The “causeway” extends a few hundred feet from the base of the cliff in the background before disappearing beneath the sea. UNESCO named Giant’s Causeway a World Heritage Site in 1986. Credit: John Franzel. (via EPOD)
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Giant’s Causeway is a huge deposit of columnar basalt found in County Antrim near the tip of Northern Ireland. The predominantly hexagonal-shaped columns were formed some 50 million years ago by cooling lava. This view looks inland from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The “causeway” extends a few hundred feet from the base of the cliff in the background before disappearing beneath the sea. UNESCO named Giant’s Causeway a World Heritage Site in 1986. Credit: John Franzel. (via EPOD)

Fuente: epod.usra.edu

From National Geographic: Vestmannaeyjar Lava, Iceland Emory Kristof, National Geographic July 7, 2004 Lava creeps over a house in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland’s most important fishing port, forcing evacuation of its inhabitants as well as 5,000 others during Iceland’s 14th volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the July 1973 feature story “An Icelandic Village Fights for Its Life.”
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From National Geographic:

Vestmannaeyjar Lava, Iceland

Emory Kristof, National Geographic

July 7, 2004

Lava creeps over a house in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland’s most important fishing port, forcing evacuation of its inhabitants as well as 5,000 others during Iceland’s 14th volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the July 1973 feature story “An Icelandic Village Fights for Its Life.”

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Between 1 and 2 PM (Hawaiian time) on August 3, the floor to the Pu`u O`o crater collapsed in spectacular fashion. (…) You can clearly see the hardened floor of the crater begin to slump in the middle and over the course of 30-40 minutes, collapse into the Pu`u O`o crater. At the same time this was happening, a breach formed in the Pu`u O`o cone and a lava flow began on the flanks of Kilauea - this is typical for a spatter cone like Pu`u O`o as they are made of loosely consolidated material spit out during the basaltic eruptions of the vent. So, sometime lava will punch through a weak spot in the base of a cone and produce a lava flow, much like what we see now. (via Eruptions)

Fuente: bigthink.com

Etna Paroxysm - kd produzione (by KdEtna)

Un videomosaico delle varie attività che hanno interessato l’Etna da Gennaio 2011 a Settembre 2011. A tutt’oggi si contano circa 13 episodi parossistici e non tutti sono stati ripresi. Seguirli è qualcosa di meraviglioso anche perchè ogni episodio parossistico è unico ed ha caratteristiche proprie. Immagini e montaggio: Klaus Dorschfeldt alias KdEtna. Segui tutte le news, guarda foto e video sul sito etnawalk.

Best of Etna in 2011. Great images and soundtrack.

Fuente: youtube.com

Etna paroxysm 20/08/2011 - kd produzione (by KdEtna)

Riprese dell’undicesimo evento parossistico avvenuto sull’Etna nella mattinata del 20/08/2011. Immagini di Klaus Dorschfeldt alias KdEtna.

Fuente: youtube.com

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