Australian geoscientist Matt Pankhurst examines a sample of lava at the stones laboratory near Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma.EL PASO - As soon as he heard that La Palma's volcano had erupted, Australian geologist Matt Pankhurst loaded his microscope into his car and raced to catch a ferry to the Spanish island.
"The more observations we make closer to the time that material has come out of the volcano, the more chance we have of making a scientific impact." "At the moment, this is by far the most closely watched volcanic episode that has ever happened in the Canaries," Pankhurst said. They then cut down the rocks into small samples that can be sent off to colleagues for analysis around the world.The volcano fell silent on Monday evening and scientists are cautiously optimistic that after three months of explosions and earthquakes, the eruption may be ending.
Further down the slope at her institute's control centre, some 70 experts have worked away since the start of the eruption. Since the autumn, the slow-moving lava has covered over 1,200 hectares of land on its way to the Atlantic, dealing a blow to the island's two key industries -- tourism and banana farming.
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