Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

Send me your volcano questions

Got a volcano questions that's been bugging you? Send it my way for the Eruptions Mailbag.

I’m buried knee-deep in lab work this week, so I don’t know how much internet scouring I will be able to do for new news, however, I should have time for a mailbag column.

So, do you have a burning (no pun intended) volcano question you want answered? Email the question(s) to me and I will try to answer them in a mailbag column later this week.

Send the questions to:

(And while you’re at it, if you have any volcano images you’d like to share, send them to the same email address!)

Volcan Llaima in Chile erupting in February 2008. Image courtesy of Eruptions reader Melissa Lowman.

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