Posted on 10/17/2019 10:15:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Misremembered the name! Witches hole.
Just returned from a trip to Italy and Sicily. Had a chance to go up Mt. Etna. Not to the top, of course, but high enough to feel it when climbing a gradual incline around one of the small craters surrounding the main one. It is constantly giving off gasses. Two major plumes are white and are water vapor just like a cloud. The dark gray, almost black plume is loaded with nasty stuff. The crater rim is mostly covered with a yellow substance that is Sulpher. The other elements and compounds read like a chemists laboratory. We asked people that live east of the mountain if there are problems with the ash clouds and they shrug and say it is just a thing they accept. The soil is fertile and vineyards abound.
Remember the Iceland Volcano a few years ago? It spread its eruption “stuff” over thousands of miles like all volcanoes do...
We should be crying loudly to “Cap all Volcanies” because they pollute far more than combustion engine vehicles.
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