Volcanic Collection (page 5)

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: 1872

Clermont Ferrand
Today an important industrial town in central France, home of the Michelin tyre company : in the distance are the Monts- Dore range of volcanic mountains. Date: 1836

Pompeii - Italy - Body of a Woman - perfectly preserved in the volcanic ash. Date: circa 1910s

Basalt tuff, collected by Dr Benza at a hillock just north of Napoleons Tomb, St Helena, c.1837. NHM specimen number: BM 861

Kenyte lava
Geological specimen collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological

The Tower of Pelee, looking North
The breaking clouds and vapors uncovering the giant obelisk. Photograph taken June 13, 1902. Figure XXXII in Heilprin, A. (1908)

The Tower of Pelee, looking West-Southwest
View impressively showing the core-like extrusion from the cone of dome. Photograph taken June 13, 1903. Figure XXXIV in Heilprin, A

Bora Bora Island, Society Islands, c. 1870
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

View near Fuernaz, Azores, 1873
Lake in Crater of extinct volcano, St. Michael, Azores

Mud volcanoes vent, Baku 1992
Mud volcano vent, Baku peninsula, Azerbaijan, 1992

Volcanic glass, Peles hair
Scanning electron microscope image of a sample of volcanic glass from Mt. Pele, produced to evaluate different types of laser in Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Mud volcanoes, Baku
Mud volcano flow, Baku peninsula, Azerbaijan, 1992

Black basalt lava
This basalt lave has cooled quickly and gas bubbles have formed into balls of fragile, needle-sharp crystals of zeolite minerals

Pre-Scourian Volcanoes
An artists impression of pre-Scourian (2, 600-3, 000 million years ago) volcanoes

Section through volcano crater lake
Illustration shows a section through volcano crater lake and also the system of tunnels at Kelut, Java, which drain the crater lake

Volcanoes on the early Earth
This is an artists impression of volcanoes frequently active on the surface of early Earth

Palaeocene volcanic landscape, Antrim
An artists impression of Palaeocene (65 to 54.8 million years ago) volcanic landscape in Antrim, Northern Ireland, Britain

Volcano types
Block diagram showing: (top left) Glowing cloud eruption, (top right) a shield volcano and (Bottom) a strato-volcano

Submarine volcanic eruption
A submarine volcanic eruption may often produce a Tsunami or trigger earthquakes. One of a series (including image numbers 185 to 190) showing various forms of volcanic eruption

Oldest rocks on Earth

Cornubian granite batholith
The Cornubian granite batholith and its main outcrops in the Cornwall and Devon area, Southwest England. From Britain Before Man 1978, by F W Dunning

Tenorite is comprised of (copper oxide). It is found as grey to black metallic crystals and as a by-product of lava flows. Fibrous specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Volcanic Activity
Block diagram showing various types of volcanic activity. One of a series of diagrams (including image numbers 185 to 190) showing volcanic activity

Early Precambrian Coast
Barry Evanss impression of an early Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) ocean with volcanic and sedimentary rocks

Igneous activity
A block diagram depicting various types of igneous activity. Fig 65 from The Story of the Earth (1977), a Geological Museum booklet

Volcano model
Working model of a volcano at the Geological Museum, London

Raper drawing No. 6
Salvages [and] Salvages [and] Island of Teneriffe. Painting by George Raper, Ca. 1790

Obsidian specimen

Agglomerate
An agglomerate is a rock formed of angular volcanic fragments. Specimen from Volcanoes 2nd edition fig 57 (top)

Plate XXVII: Stromboli
Plate XXXVII. Observation on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, Naples, 1776 & 1779 compiled by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) while Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples

Campi Phlegraei
Plate VII. Observation on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, Naples, 1776 & 1779 compiled by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) while Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples

Plate II: Seven views of Vesuvius
Plate II. Observation on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, Naples, 1776 & 1779 compiled by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) while Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples

Earths Restless Surface
Images of volcanic eruption on display in the Earths Restless Surface gallery, the Earth Galleries, The Natural History Museum, London

Krakatau map
Figure 1 from Krakatau by R D M Verbeek showing the group of islands

Oceanic subduction zone with island arc
This diagram shows a destructive plate margin, an oceanic subduction zone accompanied by a volcanic island arc

Volcanic eruption
A flood basalt eruption. One of a series (including image numbers 185 to 190) showing various forms of volcanic eruption

Sulphur crystals partly coated with white granular crystalline calcite from Cianciana, Sicily. Sulphur is an elemental substance and is bright yellow in colour

CHILE. VALPARAISO. Moai statues of Ahu Akivi temple, megalithic busts carved from volcanic rock. Sculpture

BERTELLI, Fernando (16th century). Map of Iceland, 1566. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 National de la Marine (Paris Navy museum)

Bromo Volcano erupting in East Java, Indonesia. c. 1925

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Ranger Naturalist Service. Poster shows Lassen Peak errupting. Date ca. 1938

Ngauruhoe volcano, New Zealand, 1931
Volcanic activity: The peak of Ngauruhoe, New Zealands only active volcano, gives an unusually spectacular display to visitors to the Tongariro National Park

Eruption of Mt. Pelee - Devastation at Saint-Pierre
Eruption of Mt. Pelee on Martinique - May 8th 1902 - This card depicts the devastation at Saint-Pierre, with the remains of a Rum Distillery at Place du Mouillage. Date: 1902

Volcanic Landscape
Fantastic volcanic landscape - a crater in the Saian mountains of Mongolia. (Note the size of the human figures !) Date: 1858

Wales / Glyder Fach
The summit of Glyder Fach, North Wales. Strewn with huge, rough volcanic boulders, this is probably the roughest summit in the country. Date: 1930s

Posillipo - Isola di Nisida, Naples, Italy
Cape Posillipo - Isola di Nisida, Naples, Italy Date: circa 1920

Santorini, Greece Date: circa 1931

Vesuvius / Cones
Cones in the crater Date: 1831

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