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• The Huge Krakatau

  
  by specialblewah
  posted about 1 month ago
  3 comments and 7 votes

  Krakatau is a volcanic island in Indonesia that was virtually destroyed in 1883 by one of the world's most violent eruptions.

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• Haleakala National Park

  
  by bearncze
  posted 6 months ago
  4 comments and 2 votes

  For our first true camping adventure, we decided the best place was inside the crater of a dormant volcano.

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• Mount Pinatubo Adventure Trek

  
  by eazy360
  posted 10 months ago
  5 comments and 1 vote

  As we worked our way through the ashen gullies of Mount Pinatubo's shoulder, I admired the signs of rebirth underway: the steady stream of water that skipped over horsetails, tadpoles and pumice stones painted with sulfur and iron; the moss, thickets and tree ferns carpeting the ravines beneath distant avian cawing; and Aeta children keenly observing our ascent into the gaping cerulean mouth of Apo Namallari-- the almighty god of this sacred mountain, whose pyroclastic power the world witnessed during the eruption of June 1991, the largest in living memory.

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• Crater Lake (Southern Cascades)

  
  by the_fstops_here
  posted about 1 year ago
  2 comments and 3 votes

  Crater Lake is an 8 x 10 km remnant caldera of Mount Mazama located in the southern Cascades of Oregon. 7,700 years ago Mount Mazama explosively erupted in one of the world’s largest known Holocene (<10,000 years old) eruptions.

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• Out and About in Iceland

  
  by the_fstops_here
  posted about 1 year ago
  9 comments and 4 votes

  Iceland – the land of Vikings, hot springs, volcanoes and Hákarl (putrefied shark)…. where the beer flows plentifully and the coffee has kick…. what more could you ask for? The landscape is stunning with active steam vents lining the countryside, basalt as far as the eye can see and volcanoes popping up amidst the dramatic and rolling landscape. A “Disneyland” for a volcanologist like me!

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