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The naming of the mountain is a bit of lore from the Old West. S P Crater can be climbed, and the lava flow can be viewed from the crater rim. C. J. Babbit, an 1880s rancher and early landowner of the mountain, expressed his opinion that the mountain resembled a spilled chamber pot (or Shit Pot, "SP"), [7] and locally this became the accepted name. [5]
Only approximately 100 million years old, these plains provide some of the fewest sedimentary layers impeding viewing of the Martian terrain, and closely resemble the composition of Earth's Iceland. Formed by free-flowing lava across great plains, Amazonis has been described by William Hartmann as a "bright dusty volcanic desert crossed by many ...
Hawaiian eruption. A Hawaiian eruption is a type of volcanic eruption where lava flows from the vent in a relatively gentle, low level eruption; it is so named because it is characteristic of Hawaiian volcanoes. Typically they are effusive eruptions, with basaltic magmas of low viscosity, low content of gases, and high temperature at the vent.
The walls deflected the lava flow southwards [21] and after surrounding the Castello Ursino on 23 April [35] and obliterating the valley that surrounded it, [41] the lava flow began entering the Ionian Sea as a 2 km (1.2 mi)-wide flow front. [35] [a] The city walls resisted the advancing lava for 15 days. [44]
Hornito – Conical structures built up by lava ejected through an opening in the crust of a lava flow; Kīpuka – Area of land surrounded by one or more younger lava flows; Lava – Molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption; Lava dome – Roughly circular protrusion from slowly extruded viscous volcanic lava
The word lava comes from Italian and is probably derived from the Latin word labes, which means a fall or slide. [2] [3] An early use of the word in connection with extrusion of magma from below the surface is found in a short account of the 1737 eruption of Vesuvius, written by Francesco Serao, who described "a flow of fiery lava" as an analogy to the flow of water and mud down the flanks of ...
A spatter cone is a low, steep-sided hill or mound that consists of welded lava fragments, called spatter, which has formed around a lava fountain issuing from a central vent. Typically, spatter cones are about 3–5 meters (9.8–16.4 ft) high. In case of a linear fissure, lava fountaining will create broad embankments of spatter, called ...
North Crater Flow Trail: An easy, paved trail less than 1 ⁄ 4 mile (400 m) long crosses the lava flow for which this trail is named. This lava flow erupted from neighboring North Crater cinder cone and is one of the youngest lava flows of the Craters of the Moon lava field. [46] This is one of the places visitors can view the Blue Dragon Flow ...