Monday, December 1, 2014

Speaking of lava




Remember how I noted that it seemed like volcanic activity around the world is increasing?  (That was a couple of posts ago.) Well, in that assessment I left out the big Holuhraun fissure eruption in Iceland, which is still going strong.  And now I read that the volcano Nyamuragira in Tanzania is hosting a lava lake. 

It is very important not to confuse Nyamuragira with Nyiragongo, its neighboring volcano, which also, famously, hosts a lava lake.  So these are two of the most neighborly lava lakes in the entire world.   I'd love to be an eco-tourist myself to both of them, but I really don't see that happening.  So I'll just have to marvel at the pictures like most of the rest of us.

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