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Pete Rowley
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Volcanologist at University of Bristol specialising in explosive eruptions, pyroclastic density currents, and hazards. Occasional brewer, baker and blacksmith. Runs UGUK Earth science teaching resource portal https://earth-science.org.uk/teach-earth
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October 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Sorry, I missed that, I was too busy opened a notebook randomly at a blank page to make notes. Am I making you twitch yet?
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October 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Pile of notebooks as evidence
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I just have a lot of notebooks and tend to just grab the nearest. This one is a big A4 one which is generally too much of a nuisance to lug about :D
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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That's an awesome model.
September 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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If someone's so concerned about their Englishness and the fact it goes back 1000 years, they should probably reflect that if that is how they measure it, and it only goes back 1000 years, they're probably French.
September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Text from Return to the Volcano: "An unusual story circulated after the war that Allied aircraft attacking Rabaul had dropped bombs into the craters of Tavurvur volcano to trigger an eruption that, hopefully, would be sufficiently large to dislodge the Japanese from their military base. So unusual was the story that many people believed it was probably untrue—a rumour, a myth, a good yarn. But the volcano bombing did take place. Takashi Kizawa told one of us (R.W.J.) of seeing bombers avoiding other targets and circling towards Tavurvur where they released bombs into the craters. The bombing had no effect, and Japanese soldiers considered the event to be a great joke. Kizawa, however, took a different view: that the enemy was inventive and determined enough at least to attempt a new technique. It helped him confirm his view that Japan would lose the war. Norm Fisher also told R.W.J. that he was consulted officially by the Royal Australian Air Force during the war about the use of bombing in triggering an eruption at Rabaul. He dismissed the suggestion outright, but after the war was amused to discover bomb craters within the volcanic craters of Tavurvur."
July 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Reports in Return to Volcano Town indicate that bombing may have been attempted at Tarvuvur too - in this case to see if they could cause an eruption.
July 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Huh, that's impressive. I would have expected it to be pretty sheltered from that where you are
June 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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April 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Driving across the Mendips today made me very aware of these people
April 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Top marks for identifying a single hill without further context though!
April 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Uig! Dunes by the Ardroil campsite
April 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM