I wanted to make a quick post on the some new volcano news as I'll likely be a little sporadic with my posts next week. I have my last trip of the summer to lovely Minneapolis for a SERC workshop called "Teaching Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry in the 21st Century", so I'll be busy for a lot of the week.
However, there is a some news of activity at another volcano in Indonesia - this one being Marapi. Don't be confused, this is not a typo, I'm not talking at Merapi (although Google wants to correct Marapi to Merapi every time), but rather a volcano with a very similar name on Sumatra. Marapi is another stratovolcano that sees frequent small (VEI 1-2) eruptions, the last of these being in 2004, while an eruption in 1975 produce some fatalities. This week's Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report did have a ...
