Still a single word on the built up of the volcano as appears from the exposures out side the crater. In all ravines visited by the author, this are the lahar Badak, the lahar Siwalan, the Kali Ijir and the lahar ligobo, the number of lava out flows was not to be called a few. On portrait 17 we see more of such andesite break-through exposed in the ravine of the lahar Ngobo. Remarkable is the f…
The history of the outburst of the Kelut is very monotonous. Each eruption has caused Lahans and these mudheaps always Tork retains, desa's destroyed and in the last time also planta terms.
In the night of May 19th to the 20th, 1919 the nature powers again have shown their everything destructing violence. The contents of the craterlake of the G.Kelut was suddenly ejected over the craterwalls.
In accordance with Lorie and Prof. Behrens we have determined all collected samples as real basalts. The microscopic praeparates only show difference in relative number and size of the separated crystalls between them, and with respect to the groundmass, also in his capacity of the groundmass itself. As conson with basalt, the olivine exclusively appears as porphyric separation and not in the g…
In February of the former year (1898) a very remarkable outburst on the slope of the volcano Lamongan (in the residence Probolinggo on Jawa) had taken place, which by several persons, among others by the Controler of Klakah, A. Ardesch, and the Assisntant-Resident of Lumajang, C.Lok, was observed.
When we venture a calculation of the amount of the ejected ash and punice, then it goes without saying, that we can only estimate. The statements concerning the amount of the fallen-down ash, are mostly inaccurate and incomplete. Moreover, when we are willing to fix the correct amount of ash, we ought to know the specific gravity and to take into account the thickness of the locally fallen ash …
Shortly after the outburst of May 19 to 20, 1919 tales go the round, that a view person, Europeans as well as natives have forecasted or knew, a coming activity of the Kelut. These people even are able to have observed the precursory symptoms.
According to the traditions the mountains spirit, who is housing in the reality of bleta, is peculiarly malicious and he possesses several mischiefs.
The outbursts are always accompannied by gaseruptions, which escape with thrumbling noise and the foraing of flash of lightnings. From the stories of Junghuhn (see p.95-96) appears, that during earlier outbursts the thunder claps were observed till great distances from the crater (Kalimantan) (Fron Banjarmasin this time also detonations were reported from the Kelut outburst). Also during there …