Comments on: Geological Misconceptions – Ooey Gooey Lava

By: syafiqwizard049 (syafiq suhaimi)

syafiqwizard049 (syafiq suhaimi) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:36:26 +0000

Geological Misconceptions – Ooey Gooey Lava http://bit.ly/IXrub

By: Jeff Tolhurst

Jeff Tolhurst — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:57:28 +0000

A few years back I visited the Hawaii Volcanoes Observatory and they had a display with some boots that were partially burned and curled up and a flight suit with the lower legs charred. There used to be a 3X5 card with a brief explanation saying the geologist had fallen into a basalt flow while measuring temperature. A year later (c. 1999) I visited again and the card was gone, so I asked a docent what the story was. He relayed that the geologist had, in fact, fallen in, but was yanked out instantly by a colleague. He had blue jeans on under his flight suit, which helped insulate his legs (which were never-the-less burned), and serendipitously a helicopter happened to be flying by and it whisked him to Hilo for treatment. I asked the elderly couple, who owned the Bed and Breakfast in Volcano where I was staying at the time, if they had heard the story and the wife said, “yes” and, in fact she played bridge with the geologist’s wife, who said he was ok enough to run the Honolulu Marathon 8 months later. She also said she was glad they had already had their kids. I didn’t inquire why…

By: Yorrike (Yorrike)

Yorrike (Yorrike) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:55:20 +0000

@hypocentre Oh dear FSM. My Ooey Gooey lava post is actually teaching people something? http://is.gd/mUCi

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.