The Athenaeum

Father's Day 2011

“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys.”

Harmon Killebrew  (American Baseball Player, 1936-2011)   May all TA/SST readers enjoy a happy Father's Day spent with family & friends.   -Maureen Lang

 

 

A Moment in Time- FB Ali

After the last hockey match of the recent Stanley Cup finals, riots broke out in downtown Vancouver. In one of the police charges, a young woman was hit with a policeman’s shield and knocked down. Her boyfriend lay down besides her, trying to comfort the injured girl.

Someone took a picture.

              

 

                                                                A moment in time

                                                         When Time itself stood still

                                                       The world’s clamour died away

                                                               All Reality and Being

                                                            Reduced to a single point

                                                              You and I........locked

                                                           In this desperate embrace.

 

 

 -FB Ali

 

 

 

 

Puyehue-Cordón Caulle's Spreading Ash Cloud

 

On June 4, 2011, a fissure opened in Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex, sending ash 45,000 feet (14,000 meters) into the air. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image shortly after the eruption began.

The brown ash plume reaches high above the clouds, covering much of the scene, and casts a shadow towards the southeast. Along the leading edge of the plume, it appears that heavier material is falling out of the ash cloud, while finer particles remain suspended in the atmosphere.

After this image was taken, the ash quickly blew eastward towards Argentina. Over the border, near the town of Bariloc, a layer of ash at least 30 centimeters (12 inches) deep covered the ground, the Buenos Aires Heraldreported. Argentinian police collected golfball-sized pumice near the border, which is at least 21 kilometers (13 miles) from the eruption...

(courtesy of www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

(NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC)

The Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex (PCCVC) is a large NW-SE-trending late-Pleistocene to Holocene basaltic-to-rhyolitic transverse volcanic chain SE of Lago Ranco. The 1799-m-high Pleistocene Cordillera Nevada caldera lies at the NW end, separated from Puyehue stratovolcano at the SE end by the Cordón Caulle fissure complex. The Pleistocene Mencheca volcano with Holocene flank cones lies NE of Puyehue. The basaltic-to-rhyolitic Puyehue volcano is the most geochemically diverse of the PCCVC. The flat-topped, 2236-m-high Puyehue volcano was constructed above a 5-km-wide caldera and is capped by a 2.4-km-wide summit caldera of Holocene age. Lava flows and domes of mostly rhyolitic composition are found on the eastern flank of Puyehue. Historical eruptions originally attributed to Puyehue, including major eruptions in 1921-22 and 1960, are now known to be from the Cordón Caulle rift zone. The Cordón Caulle geothermal area, occupying a 6 x 13 km wide volcano-tectonic depression, is the largest active geothermal area of the southern Andes volcanic zone.

(courtesy of www.volcano.si.edu, www.allchile.net, & friends from www.groundtruthtrekking.org)

 

 

-Maureen Lang