European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Science amp the world scientists dig into volcanoes deep secrets t Tury. Hey Call alaskans Valley of 10,000 smokes a hell with the fires burned  it is a desert of pumice and Ash piled 700 feet deep by the most powerful series of volcanic blasts this Cen for the last two Summers a Multi Agency team of scientists has been ferrying supplies and equipment by helicopter in and out of this Road less Comer of the 4 million acre katmai National Park and preserve. They have been trying to sort out the plumbing beneath Nova Gupta Volcano which erupted in june 1912 with a Force 10 times that of the mount St. Helens explosion a decade ago. The area was established in 1918 by president Woodrow Wilson who set aside an initial 1,700 Square Miles to preserve an area of a importance to the study of  scientists want to pinpoint the size shape and location of the eruptive vent. A it will help us predict eruptions find Ore deposits and better understand the Earth a process a said Tom Miller of the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage. They also want to Drill two holes deep into the body of the still warm Volcano. Scientists can interpret the magnetic and seismic results they be collected Over the two Summers of work but they still can to a see into the Earth said Miller. A we need to verify it a he said a and you can Only do that with something a Kilometre or More Down and that a done with Core  when Robert Griggs first saw the Valley that he appropriately named the Valley of 10,000 smokes the sounds were deafening As thousands of Fuma roles or vents hissed and roared spitting steam and heat into the air. A the whole Valley As far As the Eye could see was full of hundreds no thousands a literally tens of thousands a of smokes Curling up from its fissured floor a said Griggs who explored the Pukak River Valley in 1916 for the National geographic society. The Valley is silent now except for the wind. And most of the fumaroles were extinct by the 1930s, although hikers can warm their hands Over a few Small holes that Emit odourless steam Clouds near the Nova Gupta vent. Except for several deep Gorges and an endless number of gullies Cut by glacial or Snow melt into the Tan Brown and Orange moonscape the 40-Square-mile Valley appears much As it did after being cooked 78 years ago. The broken land is a physical reminder of an eruption that spawned Ash Clouds so thick that they darkened skies Over the Atlantic states dropped summer temperatures around the Northern hemisphere an average of 1.8 degrees and released acid rain on Vancouver British Columbia disintegrating clothes drying on lines. A half of the eruptive volume blew up sending Ash into the atmosphere. The other half with larger fragments blew a Day or so later and went laterally a said John Eichelberger chief scientist for the project. A amps Sharon Kilday a it gases incandescent Ash moved at about 100 Miles an hour and built up hundreds of feet thick in Only a few hours. It came out of the ground at about 1,500  miraculously no one died in the explosions which were heard clearly in Juneau alaskans capital 750 Miles to the South. A it was an exceedingly Large and As these things go relatively simple eruption a Eichelberger said. A normally volcanoes Are built up from hundreds of eruptions Over Many years. With katmai it was a single event. That a what makes it so interesting to  associated press at a glance size 173,731 Square Miles larger than California population 8,371,000 1989 estimate main language swedish currency Krona $1=5.77 travel restrictions none overview Sweden is the fourth largest country in Europe but one of the most thinly populated. More than half of it is covered by forests and much of the rest by lakes mountains and Swift Rivers. Mountains along Sweden a Border with Norway slope gently eastward to the Baltic coast lowlands occupy most of the lower third of the country a although there is a Small clump of Highlands in the South a and Are Home to the majority of the nations population. Sweden has one of the highest standards of living in the world thanks in part to industries based on its three chief natural resources a Timber Iron Ore and water Power. The capital Stockholm includes in its area several Small offshore islands. Its a fact one measure of Sweden a Prosperity is that swedes spend More Money per person on vacations than any other people in Europe. Sweden Vany questions0 a what causes the characteristic odor in human urine soon after asparagus is consumed a a asparagus appears to have a unique substance a or something in uniquely generous amounts a that reacts with human urine to produce this slight odor. But scientists Are not sure just what it is. . Fellman professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Oregon medical school in Portland said the exact chemistry involved is not fully understood but that the urine of All people who exhibit the trait has two products of metabolism that contain Fulfur. Both Are derivatives of Methyle Captan a chemical that was itself once believed to be the odor causing metabolic product. Nailing Down the exact substance from which these substance arise is the Tough part. Fellman said that one Early candidates Methyl methionine has also been found in cabbage which does not produce the characteristic odor in excretes. Whatever the substance is he said it is not harmful. It is quickly processed probably by digestive enzymes in the liver so the odor can be present soon after a meal but does not linger Long. Many Fulfur compounds Are strongly Odi Ferous including me Captan the chemical added to natural Gas so leaks can be detected. Not All humans excrete the us Lurous odor in their urine he said. In one study Fellman said 41 people out of 115 exhibited the trait. It is apparently an inherited trait that occurs equally in both sexes. New York times Page 18 c to plus sunday october 7,1990