#volcanic bombs

[stealth-science]

Examples of the materials from Capulin Volcano.

[gottalottarocks]

This is a volcanic bomb from Oregon, you can see the bread crust texture that formed during fast cooling.

[gottalottarocks]

You should all know this story about that one time my university geology department fed-exed a bunch of rocks back to campus from a field trip. And we’re talking about boxes and boxes of rocks that had been painstakingly collected and carried for hours while we hiked through wilderness, yet we made one fatal mistake. We labeled all the boxes with volcanic bombs as “bombs”. I know what you’re going to say, HOW DID YOU THINK THAT WOULDN’T GET FLAGGED?? To be fair, as geologists it genuinely did not cross anybody’s mind. Nobody considered that the word bomb would be taken in any other context than “volcanic bomb”. And apparently anything deemed suspicious has to be taken apart to make sure that it is indeed safe for transit. So yeah, when we got our rocks back all of them had been completely pulverized, probably by some very confused FedEx employees. 

[texaspyro23]

Armageddon

you know how in movies the volcano is erupting and chunks of flaming rock are hurled around like missiles? Those are actually adequately named Volcanic Bombs, they usually end up as kind of football shaped rocks and can be pretty smooth on the outside.

If you happen to be transporting volcanic bombs via the airport, you should absolutely not refer to them by their name. They do not care about your explanation that it’s just a rock. Don’t do it. Just don’t.