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a mountain that screams in fire when the planet forgets to swallow its rage
means a mountain or vent in the Earth's crust through which molten rock, ash, and gases erupt from below the surface
from From Italian 'vulcano,' from Latin 'Vulcanus' — Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and the forge. Romans imagined his smoky workshop burning beneath Mount Etna and the fiery island of Vulcano in the Mediterranean, so when the ground roared, it was the blacksmith god hammering at his anvil below. The island lent its name to all such mountains, and the god's name still smolders inside the word.
- underwater majority
- Most of Earth's volcanic activity happens unseen, on the seafloor
- climate killer
- Tambora's 1815 blast erased summer worldwide the next year
- lightning maker
- Ash plumes generate their own volcanic lightning storms
- life giver
- Eruptions built soil so fertile farmers court the danger
- diamond elevator
- Deep eruptions ferry diamonds up from the mantle
mount vesuvius — erupted in 79 ad, destroying pompeii and herculaneum
mount krakatoa — 1883 eruption killed ~36,000 people in indonesia
kilauea — hawaii's most active volcano, erupting continuously 1983-2018