Thursday, March 19, 2009

Absolutely GORGEOUS - geography in action

What does the island nation of Tonga bring to mind? To me, it evokes gorgeous little green jewels of islands dotted in an azure ocean under blue sunny skies...

But see what's been happening around there - an undersea volcanic eruption that this throwing out a plume of steam, ash and debris a 100 feet into the air!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/undersea_eruptions_near_tonga.html

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