[OC] Inferno Crater in the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand [4368 x 2912]
Picture found by the Ditpub “Beautiful World” searcher.
Original was/is available from http://i.imgur.com/qTcxe28.jpg
Not so random trivia. Did you know that…
The Waimangu Geyser, located near Rotorua in New Zealand, was the most powerful geyser in the world. Its workings were apparently created by the great 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption, which opened a 17 kilometres (11 mi) long fissure down the mountain, through Lake Rotomahana and the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
A volcano is a rupture on the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the Earth’s crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
Published by DitPub on 2015-12-22 10:54:01, under the category “Beautiful World”
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