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Geology Picture of the Week, Nov. 11-17, 2007: Volcano in the Campground (Pozzuoli/Solfatara)
www.paestum.de (the panorama) ^
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Posted on 11/13/2007 3:31:53 PM PST by cogitator
How to get there:
What it looks like from space:
Showing where the campground is (click for full-size):
and up close:
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: italy; naples; pozzuoli; solfatara; volcano
Another in a series of "places where I'd sleep lightly". Seriously, the Campi Flegrei is considered a very hazardous volcanic area, with the sleeping giant Vesuvius right beside it. (It's considered hazardous because, well, there are so many people living on top of it.) See the volcano "Monte Nuovo" in the image from space? It formed in a Paricutin-like eruption in 1538 -- in a week.
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posted on
11/13/2007 3:31:55 PM PST
by
cogitator
To: 2Trievers; headsonpikes; Pokey78; Lil'freeper; epsjr; sauropod; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; ...
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posted on
11/13/2007 3:32:57 PM PST
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
Looks like there are many old craters around the harbor: most espicially that little one at the tip!
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posted on
11/13/2007 5:26:12 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The whole thing is a caldera.
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posted on
11/13/2007 6:01:47 PM PST
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
Siccome la casa brucia, riscaldiamoci!
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posted on
11/13/2007 8:42:55 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair dinkum!)
To: cogitator
I think I would move real quick out of that place!
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posted on
11/14/2007 2:06:48 AM PST
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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