Here is a gallery of some ridiculously cool photos from the Chaiten eruption …
Chaiten Photo Gallery
Here is a gallery of some ridiculously cool photos from the Chaiten eruption …
Welcome to Eruptions, a blog about all things volcanic. Eruption is written and maintained by Erik Klemetti, an assistant professor of Geosciences at Denison University. His passion in geology is volcanoes, and he has studied them all over the world. You can follow Erik on Twitter, where you'll get volcano ... Read More
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