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Igneous features in the UK

Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:50 pm by Nevyn

Great Britain isn't a place where there are any active volcanoes but there are some igneous features found in the area.
The main features are Batholiths, Dykes, Sills and other intrusive features.

The best known Batholith is probably Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran in Scotland.

There are also a...

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Chaiten volcano

Mon May 05, 2008 12:11 pm by Nevyn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7381652.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1927588/Chile
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1314939,00.html

I find it quite amusing reading these news articles and seeing the range in time that they say it was since the volcano last erupted.
The range I found was 450 years to 9,000 years.

The pi...

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Super volcanoes

Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:20 pm by Galrion

Browsing wikipedia and found some articles relating to the definition of a supervolcano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_igneous_province
I dread to think what the consequences would be of such an eruption.

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Yellowstone supervolcano

Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:34 pm by Nevyn

I've found some info on the supervolcano, Yellowstone, which appeared in '10 things you didn't know about Volcanoes' by Iain Stewart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Stone#Geology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_areas_of_Yellowstone
This is now on my list of Geological places to visit.

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An Aftermath Recall

Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:03 am by mcar

It was a great disaster during that early 90s when Mt. Pinatubo erupted to a great extent. I was a witness to that great eruption and had seen how a province was almost erased in the Philippine map.

Here's Pinatubo, peaceful and calm as it may seem.


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Fossil Falls Northern Ca

Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:29 pm by Geoepicenter

I thought I would share a photo I shot at Fossil Falls in No. Ca, What you are looking at is a magma flow that once flowed over glacial ice many moons ago, and as the frozen tundra was enveloped by molten basaltic rock, the ice began to boil in a circular fashion thus creating these cylindrical patterns in the rock.



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Calderas near Bishop Ca.

Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:15 am by Geoepicenter

While touring the geology of Northern Ca, we stopped to see a few extinct calderas.



The same shot from Google Earth



It may be intersting to note that I learned about these remnance of a volcanic past by simply searching Google Ear...

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