The lava domes, calderas, stratovolcanoes, subglacial mounds and cinder cones forming the volcanic complex were constructed in five phases, each of which began with the effusion of dark olivine basalt which formed the flat-lying shield volcanoes and concluded with the eruption of light-coloured magma.
They are interspersed with set-pieces that are sensational eruptions of light, sound and high octane physical theatre.
Located in Assen, Netherlands the "Sensor City" of Europe the installation reacts to explosive motion and certain kinds of human touch with eruptions of light.
Instead, this eruption of joy and light is virtually an out-of-body experience.
Volcanic eruptions may therefore contribute to the development of light rings (Sadler and Grattan, 1999; Biondi et al., 2003).
The co-incident development of light rings after volcanic eruptions has been previously noted many times (Filion et al., 1986; D'Arrigo et al., 2001).
Most couldn't have been more than 20 or 25, though it was hard to make a scientific evaluation with stroboscopic eruptions of green laser light exploding around the room.
And that is how I could use what I've learned from both the world of light and dark to create theatre: the ultimate eruption.
In light of the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano this month, which has unleashed earthquakes, gas, and lava, destroying dozens of buildings and injuring at least one person, she talked about what it's like to see your hometown face a special kind of natural disaster.
"Photons – the light from that eruption – have already got here, because you can't beat the speed of light," he says.
