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[Hangtown Farms]

There are actually 4 plates that meet at Japan.
Most volcanoes just ooze, some just steam a little. Explosions like Mt. St. Helens are much less common.
The link I posted is really cool and real time so it updates. When you zoom in or out or move the map the list of quakes in the left column will just list those in the screen area. Another interesting thing is that most but not all quakes are along the edges of the major plates. The others are on fault lines like the New Madrid fault. I wonder if those that aren't along plates and faults like those that are in Oklahoma may be from gas fracking.

Another thing that will help you are these links. Ring of fire is so interesting.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Maps/map_plate_tectonics_world.html
http://fionamariecarter.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/5es-explore-plate-tectonics/
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html
This is a very cool site.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/
One of the stories tells of a 68 million metric ton February landslide in Alaska that was the largest on earth since 2010.

One of the things I love about Costa Rica is it's so active geologically. It's only the size of West Virginia but has 6 active volcanos and 61 inactive or extinct ones. It's along the ring of fire so geologically it is changing rapidly. Two of the active volcanos, Irazú and Poás, you can drive right up to the craters. Three others you can hike to. The summit of it's most famous, Arenal, is closed to tourists because of the danger but it's been quiet for 4 years.
When I was at Arenal you could see the lava flow at night and rocks blown out during the day from an adjacent mountain.
On a clear day (very rare there), from the rim of Irazú you can see both the Atlantic and Pacific from the same spot. Poás erupted a couple times just last month.
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/costa_rica.html

Cali has Volcanos too. Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen are the main two but there are numerous Cinder Cones in the southern Cascades of Northern California. The only Volcanic area I am aware of in the Sierras is Mammoth Mountain and the Long Valley Super Caldera area.
The smallest Mountain range in the World is not far from Ron's house.
The Sutter Buttes is a extinct volcano that erupted and weathered down long ago to become the smallest range in the world.

 

[chickadoodles]

Canuck Thanks for sharing all the recipes. Your soup looks good.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have not feed rabbit poo to my chickens.

I have also read about making silage by adding chicken poop to sugar cane tips.

I am not ready to go there yet.

What about the watermelon rind thing or any other unconventional ingredients?

It's not just this thread. EVERY thread . I get fed up and skip to the bottom.

... The photos & original post are great but, after seeing it so many times, not so much!! No wonder a lot of threads have enormous page counts.

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Same here.

OK, so it isn't just me. I thought maybe I was just being a cranky old bunny-witch.

I love the pics, and I love the stories, and I love how some of us use pics to illustrate their stories. But even well-illustrated, funny stories lose a little of their charm on the 5th or 6th telling in as many posts.I find myself kinda like Fixins, needing to take a break after only a couple of throws!

I'm an old timer in the computer sense and still concern myself with bandwidth and memory usage.
I used to delete anything but the most pertinent, but I got lazy since everyone else was quoting whole posts.

There is a setting to tun of nested quotes in our preferences. I tuned my off at the Easter Hatch a long last year.

Thanks, I just checked that. Couldn't figure out why I didn't get nested quotes in IE but did get them in Firefox.

How did I get aerial photos...let's give you a few hints.



Here is the last one hint...look at this photo...notice anything odd...dark, creepy in it...

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That's what I was thinking. I have a bunch of pictures of my garden like that. I don't have the bucket truck any more and I think the pictures are stuck on a faulty computer. If I get the time I'm going to have to repair it or pull the hard drive and put it in another as a slave. I'm missing a lot of pictures that I need.

Cali has Volcanos too. Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen are the main two but there are numerous Cinder Cones in the southern Cascades of Northern California. The only Volcanic area I am aware of in the Sierras is Mammoth Mountain and the Long Valley Super Caldera area.
The smallest Mountain range in the World is not far from Ron's house.
The Sutter Buttes is a extinct volcano that erupted and weathered down long ago to become the smallest range in the world.

All along the ring of fire. The Ozarks are a bit weathered down and supposedly the oldest mountain range in the country. The Tetons are the youngest.

 

[ronott1]

Quote Thanks!

I will need to make this soon.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Yum

 

[ronott1]

Cali has Volcanos too. Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen are the main two but there are numerous Cinder Cones in the southern Cascades of Northern California. The only Volcanic area I am aware of in the Sierras is Mammoth Mountain and the Long Valley Super Caldera area.
The smallest Mountain range in the World is not far from Ron's house.
The Sutter Buttes is a extinct volcano that erupted and weathered down long ago to become the smallest range in the world.

Mt. Lassen is very active. My Grand Pa was up there in the 1920s a couple of days before the last time it erupted! We have taken the trip up to Bumpass Hell, Named after the Tehama County Sheriff that fell into a mud pot and died from the Burns. The place is still very active and smells of sulfur. Several of the eruptions threw rocks down into the Valley too.

Mt. Shasta is the next Volcano predicted to erupt in the Cascade Mt. Range too. Referring to Ariells lessons for the kids, Those two Mt. are part of the Ring of Fire that goes around the Pacific Ocean. The whole thing is one big Shaky thing.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Thanks!

I will need to make this soon.

Mt. Lassen is very active. My Grand Pa was up there in the 1920s a couple of days before the last time it erupted! We have taken the trip up to Bumpass Hell, Named after the Tehama County Sheriff that fell into a mud pot and died from the Burns. The place is still very active and smells of sulfur. Several of the eruptions threw rocks down into the Valley too.

Mt. Shasta is the next Volcano predicted to erupt in the Cascade Mt. Range too. Referring to Ariells lessons for the kids, Those two Mt. are part of the Ring of Fire that goes around the Pacific Ocean. The whole thing is one big Shaky thing.

Yes just look at the hills between redding and red bluff that is volcanic and is down hill from lassen not sure if lassen did that or a older extinct one but volcanic for sure

 

[ronott1]

Yes just look at the hills between redding and red bluff that is volcanic and is down hill from lassen not sure if lassen did that or a older extinct one but volcanic for sure

There used to be a bigger volcano called Mt. Tehama that blew up thousands of year ago. The old volcano was bigger than Shasta and was part of both Mt. Lassen and Broke off. They were kind of the sides of the old volcano.

The event is called a nuée ardente eruption.

Mt. St. Helens was that type of eruption too. They are very destructive with the energy of several nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima.

 

[chickadoodles]

There used to be a bigger volcano called Mt. Tehama that blew up thousands of year ago. The old volcano was bigger than Shasta and was part of both Mt. Lassen and Broke off. They were kind of the sides of the old volcano.

The event is called a nuée ardente eruption.

Mt. St. Helens was that type of eruption too. They are very destructive with the energy of several nuclear bombs the size of Hiroshima.

Lets all just hope all the volcano's stay asleep forever

 

[ronott1]

Lets all just hope all the volcano's stay asleep forever

They are very scary!