GeoJournal

Volcanic Eruptions can happen in a blur. One second there's a beautiful blue sky above you and the next thing you know, the ground starts to shake violently beneath you, and soon you see a large ash cloud resting above a mountain quickly rising up in the air. Mount Redoubt is a volcano here in Alaska that had started to erupt on March 15, 2009. Mount redoubt is a steep cone shaped volcano. The lava composition from this eruption was silica, and the ash cloud reached 65,000 ft. The eruption lasted the last few weeks of March and ended around April 4th with a mudflow composed of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water. This volcano is across the Cook Inlet from where I live and is still talked about to this day. Here is a link to a video that caught the eruption on camera:  Alaska's Mount Redoubt Volcano Erupts 5 Times - YouTube

 Hello everyone! The mineral I chose today is gold. Me and my family got it when Gold Panning in Girdwood, Alaska.  Although the picture isn't the greatest quality, you can still see the different gold nuggets in the photo. There are some pieces of dirt in there as well, but they are much smaller than the gold specks. I recognized this was Gold based on how much heavier it was compared to the other rocks and dirt as well as the bright gold color it has. This is a mineral because it was naturally made and not man made.

           Hi everyone! My name is Rebecca, I'm from Kenai, Alaska. I'm really looking forward to learning more about Geology in my local area this semester. I mostly see geology whenever we take drives up to Skilak Lake. On the drive up there, there are some beautiful mountains that you pass by and drive over with some stops on the way so you can get out and look around. If you pay attention to the mountains, you notice some parts are straight rock with weathering on them and it's really interesting to see. Another place I see geology is along the sides of each glacier there is. You can see where the weight of the glacier has transformed the land around it and it's really amazing to see.