Is it me or does Mount Fuji appear to have lava running down it?
lat=35.3611201552, lon=138.731472674
2007-02-15 04:52:58 · 12 answers · asked by mr yass 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
That is quite impressive! Last time I looked, they had a winter image and it was covered in snow. However, it isn't erupting. The best indication of an erupting volcano will be the smoke, ash & dust clouds, and the red colouration on the land surface is likely due to other features (erosion scars, as pointed out by earlier answerers). Beware though, as smoke clouds on google earth are much more typically due to pollution via chimney stacks, cities (smog) and wholesale deforestation, etc.
I think the image here may have been colour-enhanced somewhat!
About a year ago, there was a brilliant image of AnaKrakatoa, complete with its erupting smoke plume. Sadly, last time I looked, they had updated the image with something of much poorer resolution.
2007-02-15 09:35:52 · answer #1 · answered by grpr1964 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question, because it's a bit complicated. The main subduction going on near Japan is of course the Pacific plate, forming the Izu-Bonin trench and the Izu-Bonin volcanic arc. Obviously the Izu-Bonin are is not big enough to pop up as an island arc, but sure enough it is there under water. This arc is on the north moving Phillippine plate that is subducting straight under Japan. Japan itself is the resultant volcanic arc from this subduction. Interestingly the Izu-Bonin arc (which is on the Phillippine plate) doesn't want to subduct with the rest of the plate because it is much less dense than the ultra-mafic ocean crust of the plate itself, and it's just slamming into the side of Japan, and it's pretty much at the point where the Izu-Bonin arc is trying to subduct under Japan, that Mt. Fuji appears. This has all kinds of iplications on the magma chemistry that form the volcanics of Mt. Fuji, as this is not a typical island arc subduction zone.
2016-05-24 03:49:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just looks all nice and green to me. If you have the Panoramio feature installed you get some very nice pictures of it taken by people that have been there. Oops Sorry. The pictures were blocking the red, lol, yes could be. Time to turn on CNN.
2007-02-15 04:59:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Landsat image of Fuji on GE, the red areas are not lava flows, they are landslide scars that expose red volcanic soil.
BTW, the last eruption was in 1707.
2007-02-15 06:29:22 · answer #4 · answered by asgspifs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are right and it looks really odd but it can't be lava because I don't believe there has been any volcanic activity since 1708 (checked out Wikepedia)
2007-02-15 05:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by qurm_kim 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the local Mc Donalds exploded becuase it looks like tomato sauce to me.
2007-02-15 08:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure looks like it to me.
2007-02-15 05:02:11 · answer #7 · answered by Bloodsucker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it isn't you. you got to it b/4 the news!
2007-02-15 04:55:48 · answer #8 · answered by St♥rmy Skye 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It sure does
2007-02-15 05:13:28 · answer #9 · answered by Isabelle06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's red alright.........maybe
2007-02-15 04:58:41 · answer #10 · answered by Not_Here 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋