Mount Laki is located in Iceland.The elevation for this mountain is 5,659 ft or 1,725 metres.On June 8th 1783 , a fissure with 130craters opened with phreatomagmatic explosions because of the groundwater interacting with the rising basalt magma. These are sometimes mistaken by non-volcanologists as being "Plinian" but are not. Over a few days the eruptions became less explosive, strombolian, and later Hawaiian in character, with high rates of lava effusion. This event is rated as V.E.I. 6 on the Volcainc Explosivity Index, but the eight month emission of sulfuric aerosols resulted in one of the most important climatic and socially repercussive events of the last millennium.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Mount Laki
Mount Laki is located in Iceland.The elevation for this mountain is 5,659 ft or 1,725 metres.On June 8th 1783 , a fissure with 130craters opened with phreatomagmatic explosions because of the groundwater interacting with the rising basalt magma. These are sometimes mistaken by non-volcanologists as being "Plinian" but are not. Over a few days the eruptions became less explosive, strombolian, and later Hawaiian in character, with high rates of lava effusion. This event is rated as V.E.I. 6 on the Volcainc Explosivity Index, but the eight month emission of sulfuric aerosols resulted in one of the most important climatic and socially repercussive events of the last millennium.
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