In elementary school I found a book around one of the classrooms (I don’t recall which grade, but based on the building I was in at the time, it had to be 1, 2, or 4) about Paricutin, a volcano that popped up in a cornfield in Mexico back in 1943. In the epilogue (remember, the book was around in the 1960s) discussed how geothermal energy was going to be generated from the volcano, when it went dormant.
images:
general:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Paricutin+Volcano
video (apparently simulated eruption):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XHDZYhVeQ4
I have been mountain climbing on 5 continents and have climbed 9 volcanoes on 3 continents. Popocatepetl was the second volcano I climbed.
I remember that same book when I was little. I’ve thought about that story since the Hawaiian volcano became active.
Makes you wonder where and when the next one will pop.
Must be man made global warming. </s>
I climbed Paricutin in the 90’s. The ruins of the church were pretty fun to look at too.
When I was very young, in the late 60’s-early 70’s, we read a book about that volcano in elementary school. One of the few things I remember from school.
Here’s a fascinating video documentary of the eruption of Mt Pinatubo in the Philippines.
NOVA In The Path Of A Killer Volcano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPFgfmwDUKg
I remember something similar in grade school.
A boy was walking and found a hole that spewed a rock and threw a rock back at it.
You beat me to it
It was in Weekly Reader in early to mid 60s at my grade school
From cornfield to 200 feet high in less than a week
Topped out at 1300
A Scoria cone or something like that
I wonder if Mexico compensated the town it covered