@Tjalve Well, to be proper, the eye is supposed to be floating sitting atop a tower. So "on top of a steep mountain" seems the closest, does it not?
Oh wait.... Eyefjallajökull... I see where you're going with this one ;) hehe, well played. ;) Yeah, that whole general region can get a bit Mordor-ish ;)
Eyjafjallajökull was actually a rather little one as far as Icelandic volcanoes go. It was a bit scary when Bárðarbunga was preparing to erupt and actually erupting, as that one can be a monster - but it had about as tame of an eruption as it's capable of (still massive, though). Bárðarbunga has caused the largest lava flow on Earth in the Holocene (modern age). And Laki... heh, if Laki goes off again.... the last time it went off the Mississippi River in America froze at New Orleans ;) Killed several million people worldwide, the deadliest of modern times. A "large" volcano in modern times typically kicks off a few million tonnes of sulfuric acid. Laki kicked off 120 million tonnes, plus 2 million tonnes of hydrofluoric acid.
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@Tjalve Well, to be proper, the eye is supposed to be floating sitting atop a tower. So "on top of a steep mountain" seems the closest, does it not?
Oh wait.... Eyefjallajökull... I see where you're going with this one ;) hehe, well played. ;) Yeah, that whole general region can get a bit Mordor-ish ;)
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Eyjafjallajökull was actually a rather little one as far as Icelandic volcanoes go. It was a bit scary when Bárðarbunga was preparing to erupt and actually erupting, as that one can be a monster - but it had about as tame of an eruption as it's capable of (still massive, though). Bárðarbunga has caused the largest lava flow on Earth in the Holocene (modern age). And Laki... heh, if Laki goes off again.... the last time it went off the Mississippi River in America froze at New Orleans ;) Killed several million people worldwide, the deadliest of modern times. A "large" volcano in modern times typically kicks off a few million tonnes of sulfuric acid. Laki kicked off 120 million tonnes, plus 2 million tonnes of hydrofluoric acid.