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Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes | Wired Science

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/geological-maps-of-volcanoes/ It's not always obvious what it is that scientists find beautiful about a graph, microscope slide, soil sample or some other aspect of their work. It just looks like numbers, blobs or dirt to the rest of us. But sometimes a scientific result or product is so visually appealing , anyone would want to hang it on their wall as art.
http://www.r-bloggers.com/global-volcanic-eruptions/

Global Volcanic Eruptions

What volcanoes are currently erupting across the globe, you ask? Building on an earlier post of global earthquakes, we can scrape some weekly data from the Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism Program to plot the locations of actively erupting volcanoes with R.
New Activity/Unrest : | Fuego , Guatemala | Hekla , Southern Iceland | Tungurahua , Ecuador Ongoing Activity : | Bagana , Bougainville | Batu Tara , Komba Island (Indonesia) | Karymsky , Eastern Kamchatka (Russia) | Kilauea , Hawaii (USA) | Kizimen , Eastern Kamchatka (Russia) | Lokon-Empung , Sulawesi | Paluweh , Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia) | Popocatépetl , México | Sakura-jima , Kyushu | Santa María , Guatemala | Shiveluch , Central Kamchatka (Russia) | Tolbachik , Central Kamchatka (Russia)

Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |

http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/