{"id":83420,"date":"2020-03-08T18:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=83420"},"modified":"2020-03-08T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:52:12","slug":"geology-and-third-nephi-13-whole-face-of-land-changed-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/03\/geology-and-third-nephi-13-whole-face-of-land-changed-part-two.html","title":{"rendered":"Geology and Third Nephi (13): \u201cWhole Face of Land Changed\u201d (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Momotombo volcano eruption of 2 December 2015. Photographed from the shore of Lake Managua in or near the town of Puerto Momotombo, in Nicaragua, by Jorge Mej\u00eda Peralta.
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Yup. \u00a0Here\u2019s another set of notes drawn mostly from\u00a0Bart J. Kowallis, \u201cIn the Thirty and Fourth Year: A Geologist\u2019s View of the Great Destruction in 3 Nephi,\u201d\u00a0BYU Studies<\/em>\u00a037\/3 (1997-1998)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After a violent eruption, the volcano and the area surrounding it often appear completely foreign. \u00a0The volcano itself may have changed from a towering, symmetrical peak to a blackened stump, stripped of foliage and unrecognizable as the mountain it used to be. \u00a0Local officials who went to investigate the eruption of Tambora found that the thirteen-thousand-foot mountain was now flattened into a broad plateau and surrounded by a scene of utter devastation. \u00a0About ninety thousand people died from the eruption and the famine and disease that followed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Volcanic landslides and mudflows may also significantly alter the terrain, creating hills and ridges where valleys and lowlands had previously existed. . . . \u00a0After a night of terror during the eruption of Krakatoa and the tsunamis that followed the eruption, one resident described the scene: \u00a0\u201cAt last morning came. \u00a0In front of us was what was once a town, but there was no destruction. \u00a0There was simply . . . nothing.\u201d \u00a0(171)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maybe the most common and most significant change is simply the blanket of gray ash that commonly covers everything with a ghostly pall and that kills most of the vegetation. \u00a0It can make a landscape look not only new but quite completely alien.<\/p>\n

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A 29 June 1991 view of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, showing deposits from ash and pyroclastic flows.
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In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, it ejected roughly the same amount of volcanic ash as did Krakatoa during its great historic explosion.<\/p>\n

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Clark Airbase, located on Luzon Island, was a facility of the United States Air Force that was located approximately fifteen miles from the volcano. \u00a0It was buried so deeply by volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo that the United States military eventually abandoned it.<\/p>\n

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Children atop the roof of a school in Bamban, Tarlac, in the Philippines. The schoolhouse was buried by lahars of the Sacobia and Marimla Rivers, tributaries of the Bamban River.
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The eruption of Mount Pinatubo also destroyed, at least for the time being, over two hundred thousand acres of farmland. \u00a0Two dozen towns were destroyed and 1.2 million Filipinos were displaced from their homes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt truly changed the whole face of the land.\u201d \u00a0(172)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Yup. \u00a0Here\u2019s another set of notes drawn mostly from\u00a0Bart J. 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