http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyiragongo wrote:<<Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3470m in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It is located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater is about two kilometres wide and usually contains a lava lake. Volcanism at Nyiragongo is caused by the rifting of the Earth's crust where two parts of the African Plate are breaking apart.Click to play embedded YouTube video.
The lava emitted in eruptions at Nyiragongo is often unusually fluid. Whereas most lava flows move rather slowly and rarely pose a danger to human life, Nyiragongo's lava flows may race downhill at up to 100 km/h. This is because of the extremely low silica content (the lava is mafic). Hawaiian volcanic eruptions are also characterized by lavas with low silica content, but the Hawaiian volcanoes are broad, shallow-sloped shield volcanoes in contrast to the steep-sided cone of Nyiragongo, and the silica content is high enough to slow most Hawaiian flows to walking pace. At present, the lake is mostly confined within a broad, steep-sided cinder cone on the crater floor, roughly 60 feet high by 600 feet wide.>>
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You can put him at the top of the shortlist of people nuts enough to go to Mars on the first run.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.
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After watching the hot lava volcano, you can click onto a cooler, refreshing mud volcano.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.
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::EDIT:: Hey, what happened to my mud volcano link??Beyond wrote:After watching the hot lava volcano, you can click onto a cooler, refreshing mud volcano.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.
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It was never there, as far as I know. No tampering from this ninjecko.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.
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Ninjeckogeckzilla wrote:It was never there, as far as I know. No tampering from this ninjecko.
Anyway, it looked so nice, high cone, people floating in/on the mud while getting a bit of massage. Damn! I don't remember where i got it from. Ah hates computers like Yosemite Sam hates rabbits 
The dad blasted varmints --computers, that is-- 
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Something like this, when spelled correctlygeckzilla wrote:Ninja gecko.
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Ah, i ran across the mud volcano again, so here it is.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.