Chilean Volcano Turns Lake into Rippling Pit of Liquid Ash: VIDEO
Check out what Chile's Puyehue volcano has done to Argentina's Lake Nahuel Huapi, more than 100 miles away. You must see this in motion.
Incredible video, AFTER THE JUMP...
(via boingboing)
Here's what the lake normally looks like:
Good grief! That landscaped looks poisoned. Does anyone know what becomes of all this ash? It can't be physically carted away at this level can it? Does it it eventually settle to the bottom? Is the environment ruined by it now? Unreal!
Posted by: MT | Jun 15, 2011 12:18:17 PM
That's just the pumice/ash floating on the surface. Could be as little as a few inches, all blown into that cove. No idea how far out it extends, but look here at the Boston Globe's Big Picture blog for pic #30 to see a different POV for ash on the water's surface.
Not trying to downplay the incident nor the change that's happened to the environment, I'm just trying to bring some sense to Andy's (very uncharacteristic) over the top description.
Posted by: tjc | Jun 15, 2011 12:27:33 PM
Works better if I include the link:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/volcano_erupts_in_chile.html
Posted by: tjc | Jun 15, 2011 12:28:24 PM
The area around Mt St Helens is remarkably lush after just a few years from it's major eruption.
Posted by: David R. | Jun 15, 2011 12:35:20 PM
he's trying to find his dropped contact
Posted by: emily | Jun 15, 2011 12:51:48 PM
Mother Nature is going through some SERIOUS menopause.
Posted by: sparks | Jun 15, 2011 12:52:26 PM
I can't believe, speaking as a diver, that the guy would dive without some kind of lifelife; that junk is sure to clog up a regulator in nothing flat.
Posted by: Butch | Jun 15, 2011 12:59:46 PM
It's Santorum.
Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jun 15, 2011 2:00:51 PM
Ash Hole.
Posted by: Sargon Bighorn | Jun 15, 2011 3:41:03 PM
It looks like a scene out of a science fiction movie
Posted by: jaragon | Jun 15, 2011 5:37:33 PM
It reminds me of trying to make Chocolate Milk out of Hot Chocolate Mix. No matter how much you stir, shake and plead with the gods of liquid, you're left with mildly chocolate milk topped off by a layer of chocolately ash that never ever dissolves...
Posted by: Nyrk | Jun 15, 2011 7:27:16 PM
nyrk...i TOTALLY agree with you...i HATE when that happens.
Posted by: dandydd | Jun 15, 2011 11:55:45 PM
MT - The landscape is probably poisoned far less than what we do every day to ours. It will recover, it's part of a natural process. The islands of Hawaii are the process of volcanic eruptions.
Posted by: Jim | Jun 16, 2011 8:14:18 AM