Great Pics: Living On & Around Active Volcanoes
ngm.nationalgeographic.com — Fascinating photo essay portraying life literally on & atop active volcanoes. Among Indonesian villages. Beautiful, powerful shots -- of volcanoes as well as village life & impact volcanoes have on people who live there. [If interested, accompanying article provides good context.]
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- vroom101, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5According to the experts at the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program, the last time a volcano erupted in Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia, was in the 7th century. See http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0 ... ( Harrat Khaybar, www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0301-06= ) for more info. Here are two high-resolution space photos of the Harrat Khaybar volcanic and lava field . . .
Photo #1, 31 March 2008: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ... (large), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ... (medium)
Photo #2, 16 February 2007: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ... (large), http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702- ... (medium)
via photos 90 and 91 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm
These links from Saudi Arabia's Saudi Geological Survey are interesting too . . .
1. Industrial uses of basalt and scoria in Saudi Arabia: http://www.sgs.org.sa/index.cfm?sec=74&sub=196&sub ... (www.sgs.org.sa/index.cfm?sec=74&sub=196&sub2=216&pageNumber=1) and http://www.sgs.org.sa/index.cfm?sec=74&sub=196&sub ... (www.sgs.org.sa/index.cfm?sec=74&sub=196&sub2=216&pageNumber=2)
2. Geology - Photo Gallery: http://www.sgs.org.sa/index.cfm?sec=16&sub=24&page ... (www.sgs.org.sa/index.cfm?sec=16&sub=24&page=photoalbum.cfm) - Waterpig222, on 05/16/2008, -0/+7Look at that first image, Painting or Photo? Took me a sec. Holy crap beautiful.
- Redfern, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Great photos. Is there a bigger version of the first one?
- crackah, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Not loading for me.
- Jacolyte, on 05/16/2008, -2/+1Poor, too much time on their hands, uneducated... this is fertile ground for a computer parts factory.
- JackBalance, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0Amazing pics !
- HUNK23, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Wow. I actually thought that was a Shadow of the Colossus screen shot.
- tallulahvulture, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1i love the insect on the side in the last one
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