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...Locals call it Lusi - a portmanteau of the Indonesian word for mud, lumpur, and the name of the nearest city, Sidoarjo. Lusi is a mud volcano, though that appellation is somewhat misleading. The mud is actually more like brackish water. And, unlike the igneous volcanoes that dot Indonesia's countryside, the underground plumbing fueling Lusi is largely mysterious. Twenty-two months after it first erupted, Lusi remains the world's most bewildering environmental disaster. "I've never seen anything like it," says Richard Davies, a geologist at Britain's Durham University and one of only a handful of experts...
Thompson confounds the group by presenting a piece of “basalt, an igneous rock” that she dreamily relates to the movie Dante’s Peak...
...what makes this year different? Nothing really. Hollywood usually requires a major blockbuster drama or historical epic and one art-house gem, jewel, rhinestone or igneous rock to count on a successful awards season. It’s not that these categories aren’t around this year. The problem is that this November-December awards season, the love is spread out. We have two large-scale star-driven historical epics—Oliver Stone’s Alexander and Martin Scorcese’s The Aviator (starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes)—and a handful...
...found the next best thing?a miniature hump-backed lump of igneous rock barely 800 m long and about 400 m wide just off Kalipur Beach, 20 km to the south of Diglipur. It had no name, but it did have a beach, a lagoon and even a patch of forest?we immediately dubbed it Turtle Island...
...ocean floor, multiplying in water above the boiling point. And far beneath Earth's surface, to a depth of 2 miles (3.2 km) or more, dwell the SLIMES (subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems), unique assemblages of bacteria and fungi that occupy pores in the interlocking mineral grains of igneous rock and derive their energy from inorganic chemicals. The SLIMES are independent of the world above, so even if all of it were burned to a cinder, they would carry on and, given enough time, probably evolve new life-forms able to re-enter the world of air and sunlight...