Perched above the lighted city of Catania, Italy, Mount Etna hurls a fountain of fire skyward as rivers of lava spill down its
flanks. In spite of its dazzling displays, Mount Etna is a relatively safe volcano with rare, compact eruptions and slow-flowing lava that gives people a chance to escape.
viMory: perch 栖息 flank 侧面 |
The Pacific
smolders as
lava from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano hits the ocean. Kilauea is a shield volcano, or a low, gently sloping volcano built almost entirely from
basaltic lava flows. It is one of five such volcanoes that make up Hawaii's Big Island.
viMory: smolder 无火焰的闷烧 lava 熔岩 basaltic 玄武岩的 |
A stream of
neon-orange lava
cascades down Ol Doinyo Lengai, in Tanzania’s Great Rift Valley. Ol Doinyo Lengai, "Mountain of God" in the language of the Maasai, is the only volcano in the world erupting
natrocarbonatite lava, an extremely fluid lava that contains almost no silicon.
viMory: neon 氖 cascades 叶脉 natrocarbonatite lava 钠质碳酸盐熔岩 |