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Volcanic ash is highly productive and at the very least you would think latifundia would be there. If opportunistically you can find an old water cistern and tu
by ggm 1y ago
Volcanic ash is highly productive and at the very least you would think latifundia would be there. If opportunistically you can find an old water cistern and turn it into an oven, why not?
Modern day Indonesian and Philippines and Pac rim Island farmers don't stay away from volcanoes any longer than they have to. Mud flows different. Ash? That's plantable. And tuff forms, you can build with it.
- Intralexical 1y agoI find this surprising, because my impression was that complex biology requires pioneer species to spend some time making "fresh" geology from the earth inhabitable first if there isn't already an established ecosystem. Why is volcanic ash so productive? Is it the result of coincidence? Adaptation? Some resource cycle?
- ggm 1y agoBio available trace elements and loose structure. Stuff you find in fertiliser is typically rich in volcanic ash. And lack of competition because its virgin soil. The coloniser species are what happens without human intervention.
- lostmsu 1y agoOn Hawaii or Iceland the lava riverbeds stay barren for decades. I think the parent is right.