Two weeks in a row. I’m such a failure.
This week: Sakurajima
Sakurajima (literally “cherry blossom island”) is not quite an island; it’s connected to the rest of Kyuushuu on one side by a bunch of lava flows that occurred in 1914. But the “island” itself is basically a volcano poking up in the middle of Kagoshima bay.
Sakurajima’s lava output is mostly andesitic or dacitic in composition; it’s an intermediate composite volcano, which means it tends to have the impressive explodey eruptions and pyroclastic flows.