Comment on checkmate, big geology!!
Rinox@feddit.it 7 months agoYeah, it pretty much blew out that whole section of coastline, that big hole is called a “caldera”. It’s still active btw, you can go and check it out if you want. Look for Solfatara di Pozzuoli.
You can also look at the Greek island of Santorini, where the whole western and central part of the island was blown off during the bronze age iirc. Historians speculate the eruption, earthquake and tsunamis caused by the event could have partially influenced the collapse of the Minoan civilization, the rise of the Mycenaeans, turmoil in Egypt and possibly even the fall of the Chinese empire due to a global winter. Crazy stuff
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Are we just a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists sitting in dark rooms with a computer and pinboard, complete with strings between pinned mugshots of lava domes and dikes, muttering to ourselves as we circle vaguely roundish things on maps in red ink and exclaim “ANOTHER!!!”.
No, we walk around out side in the middle of the woods doing it.