Lusi: before and now
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Images from an extreme landscape makeover.
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Lusi:
AAPG Day 2: showdown at the Lusi corral
Category: geohazards
Was the mud volcano drilling or earthquake-triggered? The AAPG decides...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:42 AM • 8 Comments •
To Cape Town!
Category: academic life
Right, I'm off to Cape Town for an action-packed few days. First, Christie has persuaded me to give a talk at her home University, hopefully followed by a beer or seven - after being beaten over the head with paleomagnetic...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:02 AM • 1 Comments •
Lusi sinking into its own caldera
Category: geohazards
Study highlights subsidence of the Indonesian mud volcano, and also bolsters case for a human cause.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:45 AM • 4 Comments •
Lusi in Time
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The latest from Lusi I've just come across an excellent article in Time about Lusi, the mud volcano currently engulfing eastern Java. Entitled 'A Wound In the Earth', it's a good summary of the human impacts, the attempts to contain...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Lusi update
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The latest from Lusi It's been some time since I last checked in on Lusi, the mad-made mud volcano, but this account of conditions on the ground in the Christian Science Monitor prompted me to check out the latest satellite...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:55 AM • 2 Comments •
Kelud and Lusi
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The latest from Lusi It seems that a certain mud volcano is situated less than a 100 km away from the grumbling Mount Kelud, and it is not responding well to the increased geological activity in the area: Separately, a...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:23 PM • 0 Comments •
Lusi: not man-made after all?
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Was the mud volcano triggered by an earthquake rather than poor drilling practice?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Lusi: two methods of holding back the mud
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The latest from Lusi The new, government approved method: Under the new scheme proposed by Japanese scientists, double-walled cofferdams will be built to fence in the mud so it serves as a counterweight to the mudflow... So that's what "inverted...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:35 PM • 3 Comments •
Lusi flows on
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The latest from Lusi It's been a couple of months since I've posted about Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, mainly because I hadn't found anything significant to report. Sadly, in this case, it seems that no news was bad news,...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:29 AM • 2 Comments •
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