Mount Pelee's Collapsed Lava Dome is a photograph by Royal Astronomical Society/science Photo Library which was uploaded on September 21st, 2018.
Mount Pelee's Collapsed Lava Dome
Mount Pelee's collapsed lava dome, 1903. Mount Pelee is famous for its May 1902 eruption that killed some 30,000 in the town of Saint Pierre, on the... more
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Mount Pelee's Collapsed Lava Dome
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Royal Astronomical Society/science Photo Library
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Mount Pelee's collapsed lava dome, 1903. Mount Pelee is famous for its May 1902 eruption that killed some 30,000 in the town of Saint Pierre, on the Caribbean island of Martinique. This photograph shows the remnants of the lava dome (known as the 'obelisk') that formed following the 1902 eruptions. The lava dome formed in October 1902 and grew in the form of a column to a height of over 300 metres before it collapsed in March 1903. This photograph, by the US geologist Angelo Heilprin (1853-1907), was published in volume 16 (1908) of the US magazine Popular Astronomy. Heilprin visited the island in 1902 and 1903.
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