A number of important phones of the investigation of te Idjen Crater Lake as a source of Eynsu and other chemicals have beon, or will shortly be completed. In view of this and since the writer shall be leaving Indonesia on April 8th for a reriod of four monthn, this opportunity is taken to bring the Bank Indistri Negara up to date on the present status of the vork on the Idjen Crater Lake project.
In Anak Krakatau's fifty years of existence an evolutionary developmental growth of its geomorphology and a gradually changing silica-content in the effusive throughout its five decades of eruptive activity could be recognied (De Neve, 1980, 1981).
Krakatau's eruptive activity reawakened as sub marine on December 29 1927, and after several brief or longer cyclus of erosion and denudation the volcano finally rose above sea level definetly between Augst 11 and September 10. 1930 as Anak Krakatau IV.
Krakatau's eruptive activity reawakened as submarinu on December 29th, 1927, and after several brief pf longer cyclus of erosion and denudation the volcano finally rose above sea level definitely between Augst 11th - September 10th, 1930 as Anak Krakatau IV.
Geology, the science of the earth, is comparativly young but despite its youth it already has done much to stimulaste the stinking the thinking of mankind. Man always has been interested in the earth on which he lives and he long has speculated about places and region beyond the horizon.