Volcano Collection (page 5)

Tourists clambering up the slopes of Vesuvius
Carrying a sedan chair up Vesuvius on the Grand Tour during the 19th Century. Date: mid 19th century

Naples and Mount Vesuvius, Italy
Naples and a smoking Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

General view of Naples, Italy, with Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Date: late 19th century

Tourists on Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

View of Mount Vesuvius, Italy
View of the summit of Mount Vesuvius, Italy, from fairly close range. Date: late 19th century

Funicular railway, Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Naples and Vesuvius, Italy
View of Naples, Italy, with smoke emerging from Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Date: late 19th century

Funicular railway, Vesuvius, Italy
Funicular railway climbing a slope of Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Lava and tourists on Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Funicular, Mount Vesuvius, Italy
People riding on the Funicular, going up Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Date: 1872

Italy - Vesuvius erupting
Italy - Vesuvius volcano erupting - smoke pours out from the crater. Date: circa 1920s

Lunar Volcano
A lunar volcano. Date: 1891

JAVA LAVA
Lava and ash pouring down over a farm at the base of an erupting volcano, Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

Volcano Erupting, Java
A volcano erupting in Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

Arequipa, Peru - with Misti Stratovolcano
Arequipa - capital and largest city of the Arequipa Region - seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru. In the background can be seen Misti (also known as Putina or Wawa Putina (Guagua Putina))

Taormina, Sicily, Italy - Greek Theatre. Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Tempio di Venere (Venus). Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Foro e tempio di Giove (Jupiter). Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Foro Civile Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Casa di Marco Olconio. Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Strada di Sallustio at the centre of the Residential Quarter. Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii - Italy - Amphitheatre Date: circa 1910s

Molten lava - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Sent from The Volcano House Hotel, Hawaii on the slopes of Mauna Kea Date: 1921

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

Geological timescale
A diagram showing geological time on earth as expressed in a spiral starting with earth in a molten state and progressing through deserts to the rise of mountain ranges and volcanoes

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

Volcano with straw roofed house in foreground, Moluccas, Ind
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lava-flow from Edinburgh volcano
A specimen of lava-flow that erupted from the haunch vent down the flanks of the volcano to its present resting place on Whinny Hill

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

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

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

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

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