Photo, G. C. \i-ven 



THE CURIOUS ERUPTION OF MOUNT ASAMA, JAPAN 



Mount Asama is nearly 8000 feet high, and the crater is nearly a mile across, and has a depth 

 of about 1000 feet. Steam is being continually discharged. The above display was photo- 

 graphed from about 8 miles distance. The discharge was about ii miles high, and shot up to 

 that height in some ninety seconds. The evident inference is either that water is being forced 

 out of the rocks by volcanic action, or that the eruptions are of the nature of steam explosions 

 caused by water which comes in contact with molten rock. 



