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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: What is a super-volcano?
« on: 31/01/2018 15:22:19 »
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I live in the Northeast US, so my recommendations are skewed, and may not align well with places that are easy for you to reach.
I would highly recommend visiting Iceland for some intimate observation of mind blowing geological phenomena. The whole island is transforming constantly, and the different parts of the island show different phenomena. In a single day you can visit active sulfur springs and geysers, traverse landscapes defined by how recently they were resurfaced by lava (my mind was totally blown seeing the bare rocks of the decades-old surface compared to the lichens of the centuries-old surface and the millennia-old surface covered in shrubs), see the continental divide between North America and Europe, which goes right through the island. The two plates are drifting apart (by something like 1 cm per year, I think). You can walk from one continent to the other, or you can even scuba dive in the trenches between them!
I would also highly recommend Yellowstone park in the Northwest of the US (another supervolcano).
I live in the Northeast US, so my recommendations are skewed, and may not align well with places that are easy for you to reach.
I would highly recommend visiting Iceland for some intimate observation of mind blowing geological phenomena. The whole island is transforming constantly, and the different parts of the island show different phenomena. In a single day you can visit active sulfur springs and geysers, traverse landscapes defined by how recently they were resurfaced by lava (my mind was totally blown seeing the bare rocks of the decades-old surface compared to the lichens of the centuries-old surface and the millennia-old surface covered in shrubs), see the continental divide between North America and Europe, which goes right through the island. The two plates are drifting apart (by something like 1 cm per year, I think). You can walk from one continent to the other, or you can even scuba dive in the trenches between them!
I would also highly recommend Yellowstone park in the Northwest of the US (another supervolcano).
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