Dante's Peak In The State Of Washington

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Dante's Peak is located in Washington, in the Cascade Mtns. In the movie version most of the scene are either realistic or nonrealistic. Specific Evidence is going to be presented in this essay along with my notes I took during the movie, and all the facts I have gathered during the movie.

Dante's peak is located in the State of Washington, in the Cascade Mountains. Gas Content was that was being presented had sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and methane. Which lead to the explosive eruption, and the lava that had came out of the volcano was both Pahoehoe and Ahaha. The magma was mafic, along that the type of cone Dante’s Peak was composite. Some realistic evidence in the movies was that the water temperature can rise to acidic, but water

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