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Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane, an active volcano, seen from the highest point on Japan’s national highway network at Shibu Pass along the Kusatsu-Shirane Route, at an elevation of 2,172 m (7,126 ft).
Near the summit lies Yugama (literally “hot-water cauldron”), a beautiful emerald-green crater lake, but unfortunately the area has remained off-limits since the 2018 eruption.
The surrounding area is also home to some of Japan’s renowned hot spring resorts, including Kusatsu and Manza Onsen, as well as famous ski areas such as Shiga Kogen.
草津白根ルート、渋峠の国道最高地点（2,172m）から望む草津白根山。
山頂にはエメラルドグリーンの美しい火口湖「湯釜」がありますが、残念ながら2018年の大規模噴火以来、立ち入り禁止が続いています。
周辺には草津や万座など有数の温泉地や、志賀高原などの有名スキー場がが点在しています。
The Fountain Paint Pot area in Yellowstone has several springs, pools, geysers, a fumarole, and the Fountain Paint Pot. Yellowstone National Park.
This trail is an easy 0.5 mile (0.8 km) loop boardwalk. You will see various hydrothermal features that are expressions of Yellowstone's volcanism. No two features are exactly alike, yet they can be grouped into those with a lot of water (hot springs and geysers) and those with limited water (mud pots and fumaroles).
I'm thinking bird on the top of the tower is probably a Clark's nutcracker. Here is the full size image.
Una delle caratteristiche dell’altipiano boliviano è la sua complessa attività vulcanica. Si tratta di vulcani pacifici, attivi o inattivi, di epoca preistorica, che accompagnano l’evoluzione del pianeta da milioni di anni.
Una delle più affascinanti di queste manifestazioni sono i geysers di “Sol de Mañana” a 5000 metri di altitudine nei deserti di sale della Bolivia Sud Occidentale.
E’ un incontro con le forze più primordiali della natura che ci mostra come la terra sia un organismo vivo in perenne evoluzione.
Quest’ area geotermale è caratterizzata da laghi e pozze di lava e fango bollente che possono raggiungere la temperatura di 200°C mentre i geyser sparano getti di vapore fino a 50 metri di altezza creando un’atmosfera infernale
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The Fountain Paint Pot area in Yellowstone has several springs, pools, geysers, a fumarole, and the Fountain Paint Pot. Yellowstone National Park.
This trail is an easy 0.5 mile (0.8 km) loop boardwalk. You will see various hydrothermal features that are expressions of Yellowstone's volcanism. No two features are exactly alike, yet they can be grouped into those with a lot of water (hot springs and geysers) and those with limited water (mud pots and fumaroles).
Námaskarð Geothermal Pass ~ Mývatn Area ~ Northeastern Iceland
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 125, f/11.0, 58mm, 1/500s
I haven't been able to get new photos for a few days, so I am back to posting photos from our Yellowstone trip for a day or two. This is the Black Growler Steam Vent at Norris Geyser Basin. It constantly roars very loudly as it spouts steam as hot as 280 F degrees. It is pretty intimidating to walk by this thing with the tremendous roar and steam condensing into water droplets. It is sort of like walking through acid rain, and probably not too good for camera lenses.
Námaskarð Geothermal Pass ~ Mývatn Area ~ Northeastern Iceland
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 110, f/11.0, 50mm, 1/500s
The rising warm, humid air from the fumaroles is most clearly visible in frosty temperatures. Due to the particularly freezing air temperature in the morning, a visit at dawn is especially impressive.
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Bei frostigen Temperaturen ist die aufsteigende feuchtwarme Luft der Fumarolen am deutlichsten zu sehen. Wegen der am Morgen besonders eisigen Lufttemperatur ist ein Besuch ab Beginn der Morgendämmerung besonders eindrucksvoll.
Beautiful rhyolitic colors of the Kerlingarfjöll massif in Iceland.
Les superbes montagnes de rhyolite des Kerlingarfjöll, Islande.
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Moon rising over Volcano Putana (5890m, 526m higher than base camp at Mount Everest) taken from 1,690m below, next to the Rio Putana (4200m).
The white at the peak of the volcano is not snow, but rather fumaroles. If you look carefully there is a road that winds its way up the volcano. It was used as part of a sulfur mining operation at the very top. Crazy to think they would do that.
This image was not planned. I was looking for birds and vicunas (which you can see at the bottom of the image to give a sense of scale). Upon seeing the moon, I put on a CP and took a snapshot merely to document the moment. But this is one of those images that grows on you with time (at least it grew on me). The Atacama Desert is stark, barren, vast and unforgiving. I feel this image captures a bit of each of those qualities.
Hverir, meaning ‘hot springs’, is a colourful area with steam plumes, solfatars, fumaroles and boiling mud pots.
Hverir is located on the eastern slope and at the foot of Námafjall (432 m). From this ‘mountain’ you have great views of the surrounding area.
On the slopes you can see lots of sulphur. The sulphur used to be mined here (until 1940) and shipped from Húsavík harbour to Denmark. There it was used to make gunpowder.
Hverir lies just east of Lake Mývatn about 6 kilometres south of the Krafla area near the Námaskarð mountain pass. The pastel-coloured area is one of Iceland's largest solfatar fields.
Be careful when walking through this area, the ground is brittle here and there, you can sink through it and burn yourself.
Just behind this hot milky white lake is the large lava field of Leirhnjúkur. Small crater lakes with boiling geothermal waters that produce steam vents and smoking fumaroles surround the volcano. Even though the volcano hasn't erupted for decades (the last eruption was in 1984) its lava fields provide stunning sights and vibrant colours.
At this time of year it has more fumaroles and hot springs than mud pots. Plus this lovely mountain stream winding its way through, looking incongruously green. Vulcanism within a few houirs' drive, wahoo!!
Lassen National Park, June, 2020.
Les Solfatares, marmites de boue bouillonnantes, dépôts colorés de soufre et fumerolles parsèment le sol au pied du Namasfjall. L'activité du sous-sol est impressionnante et on sent la terre vibrer sous les pieds.
A solfatare, from the Latin sulpha terra, “land of sulfur”, is a type of fumarole that releases large amounts of sulfur. By extension, this term also designates the sulfur deposits in themselves. Its name comes from Solfatara, a volcanic crater in Italy, in the Neapolitan suburbs, with this type of fumarole.
The furious whistling of the Solfatars with vapor fumaroles reminds you that the magma is very close to the surface.
Steam rises from a water filled vent at Seltúnshverir on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. This thermal area lies just off the road to Krýsuvík at Seltún. This solfatara field contains fumaroles, hot springs, mud pools and steaming ground. Fumaroles are the dominate thermal feature and deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulpur are called solfataras. The main sulphur aree is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulphur and sulphates are found in at least small amounts around most of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs. Yellow patches on the ground were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. in Iceland. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and is visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilisation, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the surface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey believe "the water of the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away.”
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Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at:http://www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
Yellowstone National Park preserves the most extraordinary collection of hot springs, geysers, mudpots, and fumaroles on Earth.
This is one of my favorite shots of the lake. The fumarole added character to the shot and is just so Yellowstone. Gorgeous place to visit!
Steam rises from Caldeira Pêro Botelho, a deep geothermal pit hidden in a steep ravine in the Parque das Caldeiras e Fumarolas at Furnas on São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. The vent emits sulfur-rich gases and occasionally produces deep rumbling sounds and splashes from boiling mud or water far below the rim. Because of its depth, fumes, and ominous sounds, this feature is also known locally as Boca do Inferno,“the Mouth of Hell.”
Historically, residents of Furnas used the boiling waters here for practical purposes. Villagers used the heat from this spring to make lye from wood chips. The mineral-rich mud from the walls of this caldeira was once collected for traditional treatments of skin ailments and rheumatism.
Local folklore gives the pit its name. According to legend, a bad-tempered villager named Pêro Botelho once came here to collect medicinal mud. The steep access caused him to slip and fall into the steaming vent below. His cries for help echoed through the ravine, but no one could reach him. Ever since, people said that if someone called his name near the caldeira, a puff of sulfurous smoke and bits of ash-colored mud would rise from the depths—as if Pêro Botelho were still trapped below.
The Myvatn region in the Central-Niorthern part of Iceland was formed by massive volcanic eruptions and activity and until this day there are geothermal fields, active fumaroles and sulphur mines and geothermal lakes. Arriving there after a relapse into winter made the landscape look even more surreal: partially covered in snow and yet steaming hot everywhere.
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Castle Geyser - Così chiamato per la sua forma conica che ricorda un castello . Il suo getto raggiunge i 27 metri di altezza ed è anche il più longevo a giudicare dalle dimensioni del cono di geyserite che ha formato. Erutta ogni 10-12 ore per 20 minuti ma continua poi ad emettere un forte e rumoroso getto di vapore per un’altra mezz’ora.
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Námaskarð geothermal area, Mývatn, N-Iceland
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/50
Námaskarð has very active solfataras (sulphurous mud springs) and fumaroles (steam springs), none of which contain pure water. The mud craters are uncommonly large and are well worthy of the travelers attention, whereas many of the steam craters are drilling holes that have been covered with rocks. There is no vegetation in this high temperature area and the ground is sterile and very acidic due to the effects of the fumes from the mud springs.
Despite all the signs by the road advising visitors not to enter this thermal area, this man stands in the middle of a field of fumaroles at Steamboat Point above Yellowstone Lake along the E. Entrance Road In Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. He peers down into one of the steam vents. He has been walking around through the fumaroles, making a video on his cell phone. Walking through thermal areas is foolhardy and dangerous. On a slope like this one, a trip or loss of footing could cause the interloper to fall into one of the vents. The ground in thermal areas can be a thin crust and one's weight can cause it to break away and allow the visitor to come in contact with thermal fluids and/or steam. Thermal burns are extremely painful and have been fatal to several Yellowstone Park Visitors. It's amazing the risks some individuals will take in order to post a video to their social media.
The fumaroles at Steamboat point are the first major thermal features a visitor will encounter when entering Yellowstone from the east. Fumaroles are vents or openings at the surface where volcanic gases and vapors are emitted. Faint to loud roars and hissing can be heard as the gas escapes some of the vents. Most of the vapor emitted by fumaroles is steam, formed as groundwater circulates deeply through heated rock. The water vapor mixes with volcanic gases given off by magma deep below in Yellowstone’s caldera. These volcanic gases include sulfur compounds, such as various sulfur oxides and hydrogen sulfide which accounts for the sulfur or “rotten egg smell” visitors may notice. There are no geysers that erupt water here. The fumaroles at Steamboat Point are some of the thermal features associated with the Marys Bay hydrothermal explosion crater that forms this rounded bay on the northeast side of Yellowstone Lake. There are several such hydrothermal explosion craters scattered across Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. They range from tens of feet to more than a mile across. This one at Marys Bay is not only the largest hydrothermal explosion crater documented in Yellowstone but it is also the largest in the world. It measures 1.5 miles (2.6 km) in diameter and forms an embayment on the north side of Lake Yellowstone. The crater, which formed 13,800 years ago, may have been the result of several separate explosions over a short period of time. The cause or trigger for these hydrothermal explosions are not fully understood but pressure release due to glacial melting, earthquakes, or rapid changes in lake levels could be significant factors. Geological studies have found that these large, violent hydrothermal events are independent of associated volcanism. In the past 16,000 years, none of these events have been followed by an eruption of magma. The deeper magma systems seen unaffected by these sometimes spectacular steam explosions in their overlying hydrothermal systems.
Within the caldrea there is a bizarre volcanic landscape, with flowering Erigeron and a special type of heather, only occurring here (Erica comorensis).
Erica comorensis is found at high elevations on Grand Comore, where it is the predominant species in the dry ericaceous scrubland from 1800 to 2200 meters elevation.
In the background you can see fumaroles (A fumarole (Latin: fumus, smoke) is an opening in the earth's crust, often near volcanoes or in volcanically active areas, from which warm to very hot gases and vapors escape. These gases or vapors consist mainly of water vapor and carbon dioxide, but they can also contain toxic gases).
Fumaroles vent on a jagged hillside at Seltúnshverir. This thermal area lies Just off the road to Krýsuvík at Seltún, this solfatara field contains fumaroles, hot springs, mud pools and steaming ground. Fumaroles are the dominate thermal feature and deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulphur are called solfataras. The main sulphur area is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulphur and sulphates are found in at least small amounts around most of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs. Yellow patches on the ground were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. In Iceland. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and is visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilization, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportedly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the surface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey report that "the water in the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away."
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Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at:http://www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras
A fumarole at the Myvatn geothermal area, a vent in the surface of the Earth emitting hot volcanic gases, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, and water vapors.
After going down to the Myvatn lake to chase birds in the afternoon, I came back to the Hverir geothermal area in the late afternoon and found the fumaroles nicely backlit by the setting sun.
The Fountain Paint Pot area in Yellowstone has several springs, pools, geysers, a fumarole, and the Fountain Paint Pot. Yellowstone National Park.
This trail is an easy 0.5 mile (0.8 km) loop boardwalk. You will see various hydrothermal features that are expressions of Yellowstone's volcanism. No two features are exactly alike, yet they can be grouped into those with a lot of water (hot springs and geysers) and those with limited water (mud pots and fumaroles).
Imperial Geyser at Yellowstone National Park. Not a large geyser, but tons of fun. I sat and watched it for almost an hour. It erupts for about 30-40 seconds in a series of blasts in all directions. Then it rests for 10-15 seconds before it blasts again. So you can wait around for Old Faithful with the crowds, or you can hike to Imperial Geyser and have a non-stop private showing. It's surrounded by many other craters, hot springs, and fumaroles.
Lassen Volcanic National Park is a lesser known national park that had been on my list for awhile. I spent the day exploring and discovered that the best features require some hiking which is why I shall be returning. I need to bag that peak (Lassen Peak)!
A hike everyone should do is the Bumpass Hell Trail that takes you down to a basin of geothermal features including roaring fumaroles (steam and volcanic-gas vents), thumping mud pots, boiling pools, and steaming ground vents. It is so cool to see features I've always associated with Yellowstone right here in California!
Hverir is a geothermal area at the foothill of Namafjall, not far from Lake Myvatn.
Features include colorful sulphurous mud springs, steam vents, cracked mud and fumaroles.
It is also called Hverarönd or Namaskard.
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The Námafjall Geothermal Area is located in Northeast Iceland, on the east side of Lake Mývatn. At this area, also known as Hverir, you will see many smoking fumaroles and boiling mud pots, surrounded by sulphur crystals of many different colours. This sulphur gives the area an overwhelming smell of egg.