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The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted: an account from 1822
[From the Liverpool Mercury, 13 September 1822, p. 86.] Eruption of the old volcano of Eyafjeld Jokkul in Iceland, in December 1821 The remarkable fall of the barometer which took place almost simulta… more →
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The last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted: an account from 1822
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wrote 2 years ago: [From the Liverpool Mercury, 13 September 1822, p. 86.] Eruption of the old volcano of Eyafjeld Jokk … more →
Stromboli from the inside, 1933 style
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wrote 2 years ago: I realized clearly the danger confronting me as I slipped over the edge of the crater and was lowere … more →
Explosive eruption at Galeras
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wrote 2 years ago: After some three weeks of simmering at the second-highest alert level of Orange, the Colombian volca … more →
Athanasius Kircher's 'Mundus Subterraneus' (1664)
wrote 2 years ago: Between mid-December 1631 and the end of January 1632 Mount Vesuvius produced its most violent erupt … more →
Mount Vesuvius at Geology.com
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wrote 3 years ago: Jessica Ball of Magma Cum Laude has written a fine article profiling Mount Vesuvius for Geology.com, … more →
Goethe's volcanoes
wrote 3 years ago: Goethe Etc. (proprietor: Goethe Girl) is a wonderful scholarly blog exploring the life, work and sig … more →
Aesthetic geology - Sir William Hamilton's 'Campi Phlegraei'
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wrote 3 years ago: [This article is written as a contribution to Accretionary Wedge #10, 'Aesthetic Geology', which is … more →
The latest volcanoes in the British Isles - a lecture from 1895
wrote 3 years ago: LATEST VOLCANOES IN THE BRITISH ISLES. [From The Liverpool Mercury, 26 December 1895, p. 2] The pres … more →
The Daily Volcano Quote: Charles Lyell
wrote 4 years ago: When we speak of the igneous rocks of our own times, we mean that small portion which happens in vio … more →
The Daily Volcano Quote: Jules Verne
wrote 4 years ago: Above our heads, not more than 500 feet away, was the crater of the volcano. Every quarter of an hou … more →
The Daily Volcano Quote: Richard Fortey on Vesuvius
wrote 4 years ago: Near the tip of the southern peninsula, Sorrento commands a wonderful prospect of Mount Vesuvius acr … more →
The Daily Volcano Quote: Pindar on Etna
wrote 4 years ago: Snowy Etna, nurse of biting snow all year round, from whose depths belch forth holiest springs of u … more →
The Daily Volcano Quote: Surviving Galeras
wrote 4 years ago: I knew, of course, that my luck might run out one day. But even though I accepted that possibility I … more →
The Daily Volcano Quote: Sir William Hamilton
wrote 4 years ago: It would require many years close application, to give a proper and truly philosophical account of … more →
Capelinhos 1957-8: fifty years on
wrote 4 years ago: Fifty years ago, between September 1957 and October 1958, a dramatic submarine eruption took place o … more →
J. Logan Lobley's 'Mount Vesuvius' (1889)
wrote 4 years ago: A nineteenth-century volcanological work available for free and in full via the Internet Archive … more →
Volcanoes, Basalt, and the Discovery of Geological Time: an online exhibition
wrote 4 years ago: ‘Vulcan’s Forge and Fingal’s Cave: Volcanoes, Basalt, and the Discovery of Geologi … more →
1908 ascent of Mt Erebus recalled
wrote 4 years ago: On 10 March 1908 members of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (also known as the Nimrod Expe … more →
The life history of a volcano: a lecture from 1891
wrote 4 years ago: LIFE HISTORY OF A VOLCANO. A Geological Study. [From The Leeds Mercury, 30 May 1891, p. 5] At the me … more →
