Inside the volcano

• Inside the volcano

Lava - incandescent liquid or highly viscous melt rocks poured over the earth's surface by volcanic eruptions. lava temperature ranges from 500 to 1200 ° C.

Seeing the eruption of lava, then it is impossible to forget. So this phenomenon is bright and beautiful! Let's look at it closer.

During the eruption of the volcano magma is formed on the surface of lava Earth. This liquid melt formed in the crust or the upper mantle at very great depths.

Solidifying magma.

Inside the lava.

At a depth of approximately 700 km from the earth surface level are earthquakes centers, i.e. volcanic material falls from the upper mantle.

Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala:

At the shore of the biggest lake of boiling lava in the world in the depths of the crater of Nyiragongo volcano, which is located in the heart of the African Great Lakes region.

Iceland, 24 March 2010.

Hawaii. Solidifying lava.

But the miner with a torch, looking at the flow of liquid sulfur, which is lit unreal blue. Shakhtar is inside the crater Ijen Kawaha.

Iceland, 2010.

Eruption of Kilauea, Hawaii, in May 2010.

Almost frozen magma.

The eruption under the stars. Bromo volcano in Indonesia, in June 2011.

The river of lava. The eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily, in 2011.

solidifying lava of Mount Etna in Sicily.

Hawaii, 2004.

The eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, March 2010.

10-meter fountain of lava, Hawaii:

Eruption of Kilauea, Hawaii, in May 2010. Lava, flowing into the water.

Mount Etna, 2008.

Iceland, 2010.

The eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, March 2010.

The eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, March 2010.

Hawaii, 2005.

solidifying lava.

Iceland, 2010.