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    Earthquake In Pompeii

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    volcanic matter, away. By about 3 o’clock, the lapilli fell onto Pompeii. Each lapilli could not harm anyone, its weight as a whole collapsed buildings. Clouds of volcanic dust filled the air decreasing the visibility. At dawn the clouds departed, but lava flowed into the city. The first flow was slightly warm, slow, and an inch thick, but the flow following it was at boiling temperatures and moved at 50 miles per…

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    Mexican Volcano Parícutin

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    Míchoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field. The volcanic field is 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles). The volcanic field is also filled with plateau filled with scoria cones like parícutin itself, also along with small shield volcanoes, maars tuff rings and lava domes. The volcanic field where the parícutin volcano is located in the states of Michoacan,…

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    2017, www.cbsnews.com/news/drones-armed-with-sensors-fly-through-erupting-volcanos-ash-clouds/. “How to Become a Volcanologist?” Lava Domes | Volcano World | Oregon State University, volcano.oregonstate.edu/oldroot/volcanologist/how_to.html. Jones, Caleb. “Lava From Volcano Forces 4 People to Be Evacuated From Area.” Time, Time, 19 May 2018, time.com/5284491/hawaii-lava-volcano-evacuation/. Person. “Here's What AI Actually Does.” Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2017,…

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    all you need to know about the volcano. Mount St. Helens is a stratovolcano. Stratovolcanoes are also considered to be a composite volcano. Composite volcanoes are the type of cone-shaped volcanoes. Mount St. Helens is made up of layers of hardened lava and rock fragments, because it is a composite volcano. Mount St. Helens has had many eruptions in the past so it means that it is an active volcano,an explosive volcano, and it is dormant. It’s magma is high in silica, so Mount St. Helens…

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    Hawaii Volcano Essay

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    world. In 2018, the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea erupt after a series of earthquakes damaged the interior of the volcano. After only four weeks of lava flow and an area of 5.5 square miles covered there has been tens of thousands of people evacuated and more than 80 homes destroyed as well as other infrastructures. Hundreds were left stranded, cut off by lava flows with no power, working water and electricity. Para 1 Hawaii is an island located in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the USA so it is…

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    Engineering Patent History

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    electric lamp, the phonograph, and the kinetographic camera. His contributions to the invention of the electric lamp has provided the world with a dependable, useful, and long lasting source of light. Furthermore, his invention of the phonograph has helped the world by allowing us to record the sound and play it back. Additionally, his invention of the kinetographic camera has revolutionized the world by allowing us to watch picture in motion. Edison decided to patent the electric lamp, the…

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    Fordham Gneiss

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    New York exists on bedrock that tells a tale of millions of years ago, going as far back as the late Mesoproterozoic (1.6 to 1 billion years ago). The layers that make up this bedrock show the conditions of the earth’s surface through many different orogenies, which are times of high grade metamorphism and where plate tectonics makes its biggest changes. The Fordham gneiss was formed a billion years ago (oldest) during the Grenville orogeny (Precambrian) which featured sediment deposits and…

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    Rift Valley Essay

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    New crust is generated as plates pull away from each other and can either cause sea floor spreading or new land to be created. An example of a continental rift valley is the Eastern African Rift Valley which is being formed as the Eastern African plate is moving away from the main Africa plate in a north-easterly direction. Plates move apart due to convection currents in the lithosphere. As the crusts move away from each other the crust thins, tension in the lithosphere causes the plate to…

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    plan to catch up on all the shows I never have time to watch, if only these inconsiderate effing people would be quiet. These tremors are nothing new, it happens any time this volcano decides to spew a little lava. Give it a couple of days some steam will spew from the top, a little lava will roll down the side, and life will finally go back to…

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    Poseidon He is known as Poseidon in Greek mythology and Neptune in Roman mythology. He is the god of the Mediterranean Sea, the god of horses, and the god of chariots. He has the power to cause storms and shake the earth through earthquakes, hence his nickname Earth Shaker. It is said the whenever he gets frustrated or angry, the seas get rough and, strong storms attack the mighty oceans. That is why sculptures and paintings often display his violent character, but he is also pictured in…

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