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Friday, March 14, 2014

Visit the Primordial Earth



Yahoo News reports on a collection of photographs from November 2012 from a volcanic field in Russia:
Tolbachik: hell valley on earth: Take a look at these stunning photos of an active volcanic complex called Tolbachik. The complex, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia, is one of many volcanoes in the area. Looking at these breathtaking images, it's easy to imagine dragons, demons and rivers of hell. Tolbachik is calm right now. A year ago, however, lava fountains and rivers decorated the landscape after the eruption began with the opening of two Tolbachik fissures. In the midst of this activity, photographers Luda and Andrey (lusika33) took a trip down to see that stunning hell valley on earth.
It is easy to see why this primordial scenery acts like a window on geologic time and appeals to Ur-memory, folkloric sensibilities and mythical imagination. See more below the jump, and compare to a Space.com video of a monster X4.9 class solar flare released 24 February 2014. These are grim reminders of something fundamentally alien in raw nature. All photos © lusika33. 

"The volcanic complex of Tolbachik is clearly visible from the village of Kozirevsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia."

24 February 2014 solar flare from sunspot AR1990. Video Source: Space.com.


























See my other posts related to Russia, here.

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2 comments:

  1. Dia Sobin (Araqinta)March 14, 2014 at 1:46 PM

    Stunning, TB, but, best viewed at a distance!
    As for "alien"... I think the Aliens-R-Us. ;-)

    Thanks for the views!

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  2. LC DouglassMarch 15, 2014 at 10:32 PM

    Glad you liked them, Dia. Credit goes to the photographers who had the guts to go there. I'm not keen on perching next to flowing rivers of molten lava to get a great shot for Flickr. But the results are amazing, and I think, remind us of something primal that we know about the environment that we instinctively know but rarely see in everyday life.

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