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Thrones of Vulcan
Posted by: Ylee, 11:17 PM GMT on Ιούλιος 31, 2012 +5
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No natural phenomena on Earth has the power to shape land and climate as does volcanoes. Since the beginnings of written history, volcanoes have been feared, revered, and worshipped.

The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Aeolian Islands of Italy whose name in turn originates from Vulcan, the name of a god of fire in Roman mythology. Vulcan was the son of Jupiter and Juno.

Most volcanoes are created by plate tectonics, either by two plates pulling apart, such as those in Iceland, or by one plate going under the other, such as the volcanoes in the Pacific Oceans' Ring of Fire. A third type of volcano is formed when hot magma deep within the Earth rises to the surface and melts the crust as the tectonic plate moves over it. The Hawai'ian Islands, and the Yellowstone Caldera, are examples of this.

Volcanoes are classified as active, dormant, or extinct. An active volcano is one that has either erupted in the past 10,000 years, or has the potential to erupt. A dormant volcano is one that hasn't erupted for many millenia, but still has a potential to erupt, perhaps in the distant future. The Yellowstone Caldera is an example of this. An extinct volcano, such as Devils' Tower in Wyoming, has no chance of ever erupting.
Devils' Tower:


There are several types of volcanoes. The Hawai'ian Islands, for example, are shield volcanoes. Their lava has a low silica content, which causes the lava to be runny and flow rapidly, making the volcano broad and gradually sloped. Cinder cones are usually small volcanoes that consist of ash and cinders; these volcanoes have a relatively short life span.

The type of volcano that most people think of when they think of volcanoes are stratovolcanoes. They have alternating layers of lava and ash, and are conical in shape.



1. Magma chamber
2. Bedrock
3. Conduit (pipe)
4. Base
5. Sill
6. Branch pipe
7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano
8. Flank
9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano
10. Throat
11. Parasitic cone
12. Lava flow
13. Vent
14. Crater
15. Ash cloud

Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kilamanjaro, and Mt. Vesuvius, are examples of stratovolcanos. Stratovolcanoes are also generally the least stable, as they are the type most likely to have an explosive eruption.

The island of Milos used to be a stratovolcano; now what used to be its crater, is now the main bay of the island!



Milos is still volcanically active; in one of the caves on the south coast, the heat from the volcano is still great, and on the eastern shore of the harbour, there are hot sulphurous springs!

Volcanic eruptions can have an effect on climate, both regional and worldwide. Eruptions can create huge deposits of ash over a large area, choking out life. A large enough eruption can block enough of the sun's rays to cool the Earth, as in the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, which created global climate anomalies that became known as the "Year Without a Summer", because of the effect on North American and European weather. Agricultural crops failed and livestock died in much of the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in one of the worst famines of the 19th century. "The Great Dying", where 90% of living species died out 250 million years ago, is believed to have been caused by about a million years' worth of volcanic activity.


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From Johnston Ridge Observatory, the Mt. St. Helens cam!
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From UTY, the Lake Shoji cam!
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From Campi Ya Kanzi, the Live From the Savana cam!
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Thanks to CENAPRED, the Tochimilco(Popocatépetl volcano) cam!
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From GEONET, the Raoul Island cam!
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From Milos, Greece, the Pollonia cam!
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Courtesy of TroyLeslie, the feeder cam!
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Updated: 08:16 AM GMT on Αύγουστος 03, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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A New Beginning
Posted by: Ylee, 10:14 AM GMT on Ιούλιος 12, 2012 +4
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I call my computer here at work the Glitchamatic for good reason; some blogs here I can't access, like Grothar's, Skyepony's, and Finn's, and modern websites like NUWU shows up weird on here, so I don't even go there much(Although webcam videos can be played on there, something I can't do on Classic.). Anyway, a very positive glitch, one found in Bogon's "generations" blog, has enabled me to at least partially go to most websites(although Flickr, Photobucket, and utube are still off limits), increasing my access to webcams many times over!

This is not an easy process, however. Google and Bing lock up IE6, the browser that's installed on this computer. A search using Wikipedia brought me to good old Webcrawler.

A brief explanation on how I have to get to a new cam "in glitch mode":

Start IE6, stopping the NWS page for Lewisport before it loads, as it locks up IE6.
Go to favorites, and go to Bogon's "generations" blog.
Repeat this to open up another browser. IE6 does not have Tabs.
Go to Webcrawler, or a webcam repository, such as webcamgalore.com.
After finding the link I want, I right-click on the link and select "copy shortcut". I do NOT left-click on the link, as it will lock up IE6.
On the second browser, I right-click on the URL in the address bar, highlighting it. From the menu, I paste the link's URL in the address bar, and hit enter on the keyboard to get me to the link. Most of the time I can access the link , unless it locks up IE6. This happens once in awhile.

Oh, and it "times out" if I don't use it for 20 minutes, or after an hour, no matter what, so I have to set everything up again!

Additional challenges come in websites that don't have an English version. I can't install language packs in this computer, so Chinese webcam sites, for evample, are just a series of squares where the letters should be. In order to be a cam on this blog, I have to know where the cam is, and what they are looking at, so people can at least look it up for themselves, and know where the cam is! "Somewhere in China" doesn't cut it for me!(Although I may post one in the comment section!) :)

It's not my intention to make this a "travelogue with webcams" kind of blog, and post a lot of information with the cams about where and what and who. For the most part, I'll let the cams do the talking, and post links(as always) for you to look it up yourself, if you want to!

I hope you like them; as always, it's a work in progress! :)


Courtesy of ThemeGreen, the Webstager Ferry IP cam!
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From Canyonlands National Park, the Sky Visitor center cam!
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From Milos, Greece, the Pollonia cam!
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From Denali National Park, the Sled Dog Puppies cam!
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Thanks to the US Forest Service, the Shining Rock cam!
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From St. Julian's, Malta, the Spinola Bay cam!
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From Rocky Mountain National Park, the Alpine Visitor Center cam!
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From Grundlsee, Austria, the Rostiger Anker cam!
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Courtesy of TroyLeslie, the feeder cam!
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America, the Beautiful
Posted by: Ylee, 11:28 AM GMT on Ιούλιος 02, 2012 +6
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My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!


O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!


This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
While all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
This land was made for you and me.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.


There are many natural wonders in the big blue planet, but the ones I'm mosy partial to are in these United States! Why? Every cam in this blog is on government property, which makes it yours(If you're a U.S. citizen) and mine! Many shed blood and even their lives so we can enjoy these wonders; people have also conspired to use these wonders for their own personal gain, but for the most part, the will of the People ruled out, and today we enjoy the beauty and solitude of our parks and other wild areas.



From Washington, D.C., the Netherlands Carillion cam!
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From Yosemite National Park, the Ahwahnee Meadows cam!
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From Gulf Islands National Seashore, the Perdido Key Beach cam!
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From Grand Canyon National Park, the Yavapai Point cam!
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From Yellowstone National Park, the Old Faithful cam!
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Thanks to the US Forest Service, the Columbia Gorge cam!
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Also from the US Forest Service, the Dolly Sods cam!
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From Everglades National Park, the Anhinga Trail cam!
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From Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the Painted Canyon cam!
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Updated: 11:33 AM GMT on Ιούλιος 02, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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