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Category: volcano
There are thirteen canary islands. But there are about to be fourteen. Well, actually, there's probably more than 13 as these island chains usually have a few extra rocks sticking up that people aren't sure about including in the final count. The point is, there...
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Category: Yellowstone
Someday, she's gonna blow. Or maybe not. But don't worry, you are more likely to get in a car crash and then eaten by a griz.
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Category: Cosmos
NASA may have spotted evidence of ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon....
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Category: Archaeology
Even at the most extreme edges of the flow of stuff out of the volcano Pompeii, at the far edge of the mud and ash that came from the volcano's explosion, the heat was sufficient to instantly kill everyone, even those inside their homes. And...
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Category: volcano
Whitney Houston took a car ferry from Britain to Ireland to attend her concert, rather than flying. A very large magical snake protects a canyon in south Africa. These things are connected a lot more closely than you might think.
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Category: volcano
Well, not really. But, as noted in Eruptions, there is a new swarm of little earthquakes underneath the Yellowstone Caldera. You'll remember we discussed this here last time that happened. Since that time, of course, we've gotten to see what it would actually look like...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:43 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: lost congo memoir
I had mentioned earlier that the volcanoes of the Virugna region in the Western Rift Valley (as well as other highland spots) have often been islands of rain forest separated from each other by different habitats, including grasslands and wooded savannas. this has produced an...
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Category: volcano
Nyamuragira, just now erupting, is one of the numerous Virunga Volcanoes, which form a large cluster of volcanoes spanning the border of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, between Lake Ex-Edward (a.k.a. Lake Rutenzege) and Lake Kivu. The largest population center is Goma, on Lake Kivu, along...
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Category: Earthquake
Mount Rainier (14,410 ft) has lately attracted a small amount of attention because of what is considered by some an increase in seismic activity there, so I thought it might be nice to get a baseline description of this volcano for those of you interested...
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