Excursion to the 1928 eruptive fissure at Ripe della Naca, at about 1200 m elevation on the north-northeast flank of Mount Etna, 16 April 2010. This is one of the larger craters on the fissure, and the uppermost of the small cones that developed in the lowermost fissure of the …
As soon as you leave Redding and the San Joaquim Valley, and start to climb a tortuous asphalt track up into the Cascades, the landscape changes abruptly. After a while, a sudden bend leaves you with a quick image of something different and you think, yeah right, that was there. …
Etna Volcano Eruption January 12th 2011 View from the East side. High Resolution Photo. Taken from Zafferana.
Excursion to the 1928 eruptive fissure at Ripe della Naca, at about 1200 m elevation on the north-northeast flank of Mount Etna, 16 April 2010. Some of the smallest eruptive vents that exist on Etna lie on the 1928 fissure; someone has recently planted little trees in two of these …
Two geologists are looking down into one of the giant crater pits at the summit of Mount Etna, the Bocca Nuova ("New Mouth"), while sulfurous gas and vapor wafts from countless fumaroles (gas vents), making breathing difficult. Just outside the photograph to the left is another huge crater, the Voragine …
A this point she had walked ca. 14 km with ca. 900 metres elevation with her father and was VERY tired! Two steep kilometres to go –
