Exploring caves can be very dangerous. This story is progressing as they attempt to bring the trapped boys out through flooded and narrow rock openings.
Spooky Geology went to Australia earlier this month. Thanks to those who turned out in Melbourne for the talk!
Post updated to include recent death resulting from sinkhole. https://spookygeology.com/sinkholes/
The man attempted to help other boaters who were ejected. But his kayak overturned and he drowned. I have seen more than one of these in-stream sinkholes in Pennsylvania. They are extremely dangerous. It would be interesting to know the groundwater hydrology here to determine why the water was sucked into the river bed. Rivers are typically fed by the groundwater coming up, not the other way around. The groundwater levels must be lower than the river bottom in this location.
The latest Big Picture Science podcast is on the flat earth (and other things). Strangely, I'm interviewed but not about flat earthers! Check it out. http://radio.seti.org/episodes/skeptic-check-flat-earth
Spooky Geology shared USGS Volcanoes's video.
According to legend, Pele, Hawaiian deity of volcanoes, clashes with her sister, Nāmakaokaha‘i, Hawaiian deity of the sea, and stories of their encounters refle...ct the tumultuous interactions that occur when lava meets the sea.
A helicopter overflight of Kīlauea Volcano’s lower East Rift Zone on June 6, 2018, around 5:00 PM, documents conditions at the lava/ocean interface. The white plume is laze, a mixture of condensed acidic steam, hydrochloric acid gas, and tiny shards of volcanic glass that is irritating to the lungs, eyes and skin. The laze plume drifts with the wind and health effects dissipating quickly.
Lava entering the ocean builds a platform of new land known as a lava delta. This new land appears stable, but the surface veneer of lava hides a foundation of loose rubble. As lava deltas grow seaward and along the shoreline, they slowly settle or sink as the loose debris shifts under the weight of the overlying lava flow. When the underlying debris can no longer support a delta's growing mass or is undercut by wave erosion, the delta can collapse into the ocean.
Beginning on June 3, lava from fissure 8 entered the ocean at Kapoho Bay. By June 6, lava completely filled Kapoho Bay and built a delta that extends over a mile from shore.
Video from the U.S. Geological Survey–Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
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Catch a presentation on Spooky Geology June 18 in Carlton Australia! https://vicskeptics.wordpress.com/events/
As molten rock flies through the air, it forms into substances known as Pele's hair and tears. So-called Pele's hair, named after the Goddess of Fire who inhabits Kilauea volcano, is vitrified lava, or threads of glass that looks very much like golden hair. Millimeters in thickness but sometimes very long, they are lightweight and carried by the wind. Strands of the "hair" blown in the wind collect in clumps on the ground or in vegetation. [ 269 more words ]
http://spookygeology.com/peles-hair-and-tears/
Why earthquakes are worse in the eastern US. https://www.usgs.gov/news/east-vs-west-coast-earthquakes
Pele, the Goddess of Fire and Volcanoes deserves her own page on this site, but the current activity at Kilauea Volcano on the big island of Hawaii merits a mention right now. [ 899 more words ]
http://spookygeology.com/the-wrath-of-pele/
Living on an active volcano is scary. Kilauea status is ORANGE.
"Geologists reported this evening that the presence of sulfur gas is quite noticeable around the fissure, typical of active and recently active fissures. The concentration of sulfur dioxide gas is high within tens of meters (yards) of the fissure."
"Tiltmeters at Kīlauea's summit continue to record deflationary tilt and the lava lake level has dropped about 37 m (121 ft) in the past 24 hours."
..."The opening phases of fissure eruptions are dynamic and uncertain. Additional erupting fissures and new lava outbreaks may occur. It is not possible at this time to say when and where new vents may occur."
"Areas downslope of an erupting fissure or vent are at risk of lava inundation. At this time, the general area of the Leilani subdivision appears at greatest risk."
Hart Island is New York City’s “potters field” where one million of the poor, unclaimed, or unidentified dead are buried. Since 1868, bodies have been interred on the island making it the nation’s largest cemetery. Islands, however, are not great places for burial due to high water tables and erosion. Strong storms in the past few years have eaten away at the land and exposed remains, most of which were interred in mass graves or wooden coffins. [ 361 more words ]
http://spookygeology.com/island-of-the-dead-is-eroding/
Despite centuries of reports of anomalous luminous phenomena (ANP) - lights, glows, flames, sparks and clouds - before, during or after an earthquake, the scientific view of such reports remains deeply divided. The evidence for earthquake lights (EQLs) and associated anomalies consists overwhelmingly of anecdotal accounts. But scientific evidence has been accumulating, and in the past 10 years plausible theory to explain the host of unusual precursors has been proposed. [ 6,591 more words ]
