In What Ways Do Volcanoes Affect The Environment?

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I bet while your reading these words, at least 20 volcanoes are erupting. That’s crazy! So how do volcanoes affect the environment? Well there are many ways actually, one way is that they create super rich soils after the molten lava rocks get weathered into a soil. Another way is how much they erupt, with this much erupting, they could create more mountains or volcanoes that take up space and destroy some of our places.

Roughly, each year through the 90’s 60 Volcanoes erupt and there was about 154 that erupted through the full decade of 1990-1999. About 1,300 maybe more than 1,500 have erupted in the past 10,000 years, but this is nothing compared to seafloor volcanoes, they are estimated to exceed a million in the past 10,000 years.

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