Comments on: Geological Misconceptions - Ooey Gooey Lava

By: goodSchist.com » Blog Archive » Geology in the Movies: The Chronicles of Riddick

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:32:13 +0000

[...] in the Movies”. I found the temptation to tackle a movie like The Core (a part of which I looked at in AW 5) truly palpable. Other geo-movie triumphs such as Volcano, Dante’s Peak or Journey to the [...]

By: Julie McShea

Julie McShea — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:46:54 +0000

Ha…you guys crack me up! Former carrier pilot, now earth science teacher, but love you tearing up the movies…I feel the same way about “TopGun”!

By: The Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie « The Accretionary Wedge

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:21:16 +0000

[...] Lava is not a swimming pool. Oh, and the mantle isn’t liquid. [...]

By: Garry Hayes

Garry Hayes — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:02:09 +0000

Someone might remember this better than I, but a decade or so back, there was an abortive attempt to publish a popular magazine in the earth sciences (It may have been called “Earth”). And I remember reading the first issue, which included an account of a volcanologist who did, in fact, fall into a stream of basaltic lava. He was wearing protective gear, but went in up to his knees before being pulled out almost immediately. He survived, and kept his legs after a great deal of rehabilitation.

Unfortunately, my mind is full of these undocumented factoids. God help my students when I start telling these stories!

By: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie

Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:55:49 +0000

[...] Lava is not a swimming pool. Oh, and the mantle isn’t liquid. [...]

By: Mantle misconceptions corrected at Accretionary Wedge #5 « The Volcanism Blog

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:40:11 +0000

[...] It’s more complicated than that, and you have to think in three dimensions to see it. goodSchist.com: Geological misconceptions - ooey gooey lava ‘You’ve seen lava flowing out of the ground, flowing from volcanoes, flowing here there and [...]

By: Chris Rowan

Chris Rowan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:14:06 +0000

My family maintain that by far the most entertaining two hours of Christmas a couple of years ago was watching me watch the Core.

The funny thing about that Volcano scene is that they get the ‘non-sinking’ bit right, but then decide to have the guy still screaming in agony and terror when half of his body has been burnt to ashes.

Bad Movie Geology would be a great theme - perhaps we could leave it until the Summer Blockbuster Season though.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:12:11 +0000

Would an Accretionary Wedge on tearing apart our (least) favorite Bad Disaster Movies be too close to the current carnival on misconceptions? Because that would be a heck of a lot of fun to read (and write for).

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:48:35 +0000

Perhaps we should make an experimental determination of what happens when someone falls into lava…

By: Thermochronic

Thermochronic — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:11:22 +0000

This is also my most annoying geologic misconception, nice post. My favorite example is from the movie “Volcano” with Tommy Lee Jones. There is a scene where a dude melts into calf-deep lava while screaming and waving his hands in horror. Classic.