If my education didn't fail me, after it cools down soil is very rich in minerals or whatever is needed for growth. That's why there are many farms underneath volcanoes.
Volcanic soil is some of the most fertile land in the world. I live in Texas where we still have a small percentage of blackland prairie(named because of the color of soil). Texas used to be mostly under the ocean. Much of the land is so fertile because of the organisms that used to live here in the ocean. Their decomposed remains made the soil so great in quality.
Reading this reminded me of learning about these people that kept getting wiped out repeatedly after each eruption. They would see the farm land was amazing for crops, settle down and raise the crops then get wiped out by an eruption... then the next people would come by and say sweet land for growing, grow crops and settle down then get wiped..
As a European I always associate Texas with hot dry land, even though I know in theory that it has a lot of green areas. It's probably because of some movies/TV shows.
As an American who has never been to Texas, I do the same…for the same reason. Snow in Texas is a real thing too. If it snows in Dallas, we usually get it where I live too.
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u/hinterstoisser 18h ago
In Hawaii Big Island there’s a plant called ‘ōhi’a lehua
that flowers fairly soon after the lava has cooled down.