#volcanoes
why is no one ever talking about the Graveyard seamount complex??
these underwater volcanoes have the best names ever are u kidding me?? tag urself i’m ghoul
Crowley named those.
Vesuvius eruption by Michael Wutky
Volcanoes are little bitches
wow ok
Motion EarthlKevin Pages l Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland
A violent underwater eruption at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai caldera on January 15th sent literal shock waves around the world. This animation, based on satellite images from Japan’s Himawari 8, shows the fast-moving shock waves and the growing ash plume coming from the uninhabited island. (Image credit: S. Doran/Himawari 8; submitted by jpshoer; see also S. Cronin)
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The forbidden burnt marshmallow
I wanna touch it so fucking bad y'all
Life goals!
Mauna Loa, my daughter’s favorite volcano
The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 is without a doubt one of the most famous, if not iconic, volcanic events in history. The first rumblings were felt on 23 August - which was the feast day of Vulcan, no less - and then, on 24 August, the volcano erupted.
The event was witnessed by a 17 year-old Pliny the Younger, who wrote some vivid, first person accounts in his letters. It’s because of his descriptions that particularly violent volcanic eruptions are still referred to as Plinian.
Herculaneum was one of the Roman towns which were buried under tens of metres of pumice and ash during the eruption. One house in Herculaneum contained a library filled with papyrus scrolls which were turned into charcoal by the heat of the volcanic ash.
These charcoal scrolls were discovered by excavators in the 1750s. Four of them were presented to the Bodleian Library in 1810 by George, Prince of Wales.
Then, in 1883-4, one of the scrolls was unrolled and mounted into a series of frames, which were much more recently digitized.
The Bodleian Libraries hosted an exhibition called Volcanoes in early 2017. Still available is the tremendous accompanying book, written by curator David Pyle.
(The image at the head of this post is a detail from William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei)
Poster print for new shop drop,
Ella Webb