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By: AUREANAYZ ERICA
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| Thursday, 17-Aug-2006 13:22 |
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MOUNT ETNA SICILY-The active Volcano
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reflection of snow
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the only bar ...
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snow
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waiting for 4x4 bus
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smoke..
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peninggalan hotel yg musnah ...
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Remarks:
I was not involved in this trip as it too hot that time and with small kids make me uncomfortable to joint my husband up to the top of Etna. All pictures taken by my husband.
Mount Etna is an active Volcanao and situated in the east Coast of sicily, close to Messina and catania. Etna is an isolated peak about 29 km (18 miles) from Catania which dominates the eastern side of Sicily. It takes 2 hours by road to Mount Etna Cabel Station.,From here you have to take cable Car to the top before proceeding with the 4x4 bus bringing you up to the top of the Mount. It is the largest active volcano in Europe at 3,350 m.Etna covers an area of 1190 km.
Disepanjang perjalanan kita dapat saksikan perbezaan bentuk muka bumi dimana kawasan yang pernah terkena muntahan lava gunung berapi ini begitu subur dengan tumbuhan yang menghijau. Letupan yang terakhir berlaku ialah pada awal July 2006, seminggu selepas gambar ini diambil. Lawatan ke Mount Etna ini adalah ehsan suami yang ke sana pada June 26, 2006.
2minggu sebelum salji masih turun di puncak Mount Etna.
Dua gambar dibawah adalah merupakan hostel bagi paderi-paderi.menurut cerita masa berlaku letupan yang terahir paling kuat sekitra hujung 90 an, para paderi ini berdoa supay lava gunung berapi ini tidak memusnahkan hostel mereka dan doa mereka diberitakan dikalbukan.
Facts on MOUNT ETNA –source from brochures and internet:
Volcanic activity at Etna began about half a million years ago, with eruptions occurring beneath the sea off the then coastline of Sicily. 300,000 years ago, volcanism began occurring to the southwest of the present-day summit, before activity moved towards the present centre 170,000 years ago. Eruptions at this time built up the first major volcanic edifice, forming a stratovolcano in alternating explosive and effusive eruptions. The growth of the mountain was occasionally interrupted by major eruptions leading to the collapse of the summit to form calderas.
From about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago, Etna experienced some highly explosive eruptions, generating large pyroclastic flows which left extensive ignimbrite deposits. Ash from these eruptions has been found as far away as Rome, 800 km to the north.
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Historical eruptions
About 3,500 years ago, the eastern flank of the mountain experienced a catastrophic collapse, generating an enormous landslide in an event similar to that seen at Mount St. Helens in 1980. The eruption which is thought to have caused this collapse was recorded by Diodore of Sicily, the first known record of an eruption at Etna. The landslide left a large depression in the side of the volcano, known as 'Valle del Bove' (Valley of the Oxen). The steep walls of the Valle have suffered subsequent collapse on numerous occasions. The strata exposed in the valley walls provide an important and easily accessible record of Etna's eruptive history.
The most recent collapse event at the summit of Etna is thought to have occurred about 2,000 years ago, forming what is known as the Piano Caldera. This caldera has been almost entirely filled by subsequent lava eruptions, but is still visible as a distinct break in the slope of the mountain near the base of the present-day summit cone.
The Roman poet Virgil gave what was probably a first-hand description of an eruption in the Aeneid:
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Debu terlalu kuat warna hitam, this is the sulphur dan lava.Tapi kat bawah sebelum naik tanah subur sekali.
