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Volcanoes - Ms. Inden's Geography 12 Website | When one
Volcanoes - Ms. Inden's Geography 12 Website | When one

... plates • The magma develops in a magma chamber below the earth http://www.georesources.co.uk/volgen.htm ...
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Volcanic Eruption
Volcanic Eruption

... high on the flank of an inactive volcano in Cameroon. • A pocket of magma lies beneath the lake, charging the water with an estimated 90 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2). • In 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos triggered the sudden release of about 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 that rushed down ...
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Cause(s) - elearningadulted

... describes many cause-and-effect relationships. When the temperature rises deep under the Earth’s crust, it becomes hot enough to melt rock and turn it into magma. Sometimes this melted rock blasts through the Earth’s surface, which causes rock, ash, and deadly gases to fly into the air. The lava tha ...
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What is a volcano? - Mr. LaFranca`s Earth Science Class

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Volacano - OnCourse
Volacano - OnCourse

... A volcano erupts quietly if its magma is low in silica. Low silica magma has low viscosity and flows easily. A volcano erupts explosively if its magma is high in silica. High silica magma has high viscosity ,making it thick and sticky. The explosive eruptions breaks lava into fragments that quickly ...
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Unit 3 Section 2 Volcanoes Answer Key - WAHS

... volcanic eruption that blasts pieces of lava and rock into the atmosphere. (pyroclastics) A composite cone forms by many eruptions of material with medium or high-silica content. They erupt violently when pressure builds up in the magma. After the initial explosion, lots of gooey (viscous) lava ooze ...
Ch 3 Sec 4: Volcanic Landforms
Ch 3 Sec 4: Volcanic Landforms

... forming high level areas. Over millions of years, these layers of lava build up over a large area to form a lava plateau. Ex. Columbia Plateau An enormous eruption may empty a volcano’s main vent and magma chamber. With nothing to support it, the top of the mountain collapses inward. The huge hole l ...
Volcanoes - The Open Mind Academy
Volcanoes - The Open Mind Academy

... Volcanoes vary quite a bit in their structure - some are cracks in the earth's crust where lava erupts, and some are domes, shields, or mountain-like structures with a crater at the summit. Magma is molten rock within the Earth's crust. When magma erupts through the earth's surface it is called lava ...
geothermal activity - Madison County Schools
geothermal activity - Madison County Schools

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Review for Chapter 9 – Volcanoes
Review for Chapter 9 – Volcanoes

... 17. How is magma different from lava? 18. Crater Lake is an example of what volcanic landform? 19. At a Subduction boundary, where does the volcano normally form? 20. Lava plateaus (very broad flat land forms) form from what type of lava? 21. In our solar system, where are there active volcanoes? 2 ...
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Shield volcanoes
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Volcanoes

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Mount Vesuvius



Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio, Latin: Mons Vesuvius) is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure.Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and several other settlements. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy released by the Hiroshima bombing. An estimated 16,000 people died due to hydrothermal pyroclastic flows. The only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus.Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years. Today, it is regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people living nearby and its tendency towards explosive (Plinian) eruptions. It is the most densely populated volcanic region in the world.
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