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Geo-Process’s Results Billions of years ago, the earth was not made up of seven continents, as it is today. It was one big landmass called Pangea. Meaning all land. Pangea went under a process called continental drift, founder by Alfred Wegener, which is caused by geo-process. Geo-process results in changes to the earth's surface because of tectonic plates causing mountain building, earthquakes, and volcanos. First off, convergent plates cause many different types of mountains, like the…

Earthquakes and volcanoes go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly or rice and beans. Where there are volcanos there are usually tectonic plates beneath them either pushing against or pulling away from one another. Take for instance the Cascade Mountain Range in Northern California and stretches through Oregon and into Vancouver, British Columbia and sits northeast of the San Andreas Fault line that runs 750 miles through California. This fault creates the tectonic boundary between the…

You may hear the word volcano and think scorching hot lava, but there is more to these heated mountains than you think. Volcanos can be quit dangerous but we do benefit from them. Volcanos do not only affect us, they infect our environment in ways most people may not know. To start off, the population of volcanos has grown tremendously. In the 1900’s, “roughly 60 (volcanos) erupted each year” as stated in the first paragraph of the article “How Many Active Volcanoes Are There”. Now, it is know…

Volcanoes are deep vents in the earth that allow magma, volcanic gases, volcanic ash, and other volcanic material to come to the surface of the earth from magma chambers during eruption. Volcanoes exist because the earth’s crust is split into seventeen major tectonic plates, and they occur when two tectonic plates converge, and magma rises. The hole in the earth, also known as a vent, goes down into a central vent which is beneath the summit crater. At a deep depth, but is widely unknown, a…

Volcanoes have been around for centuries but, some are active, some are not. Some volcanoes erupt frequently, while others do not. “At least 20 volcanoes will probably be erupting as you read these words” (Siebert 58). We have all heard of volcanoes before but do you really know about them? A preferred title for “active volcanoes” is a “Holocene volcano” or “historically active.” There are even Holocene volcanoes on the sea floor, and some Holocene volcanoes go way back such as Italy’s…

On August 5, 2010 a ramp into the San Jose mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert collapsed, leaving 33 miners trapped more than 2,000 feet underground. The men were working inside a mountain, excavating for gold and other minerals when they started feeling vibrations. There was a huge explosion and after the dust settled, miners discovered that a block of stone had broken off from the rest of the mountain and fell through the layers of the mine, causing a chain reaction as the mountain above it began…

Young Volcanoes- an Analysis Young Volcanoes is the ninth song on the album Save Rock and Roll by Fall Out Boy. It was released on April 12, 2013 along with the rest of the album. This song was written for the youth that listens to their music. It explains the feeling of being free and young. There are many poetic elements in this song. The figurative language in this song creates a feeling of confidence and freedom. The first metaphor, and also symbolic figure, is, “When Rome’s in ruins, we…

lasted 18-20 hours, and left huge amounts of volcanic ash and rock in the air, blanketing the sun and turning day into night. As the cloud collapsed, it triggered the second phase- the Peléan phase, where pyroclastic flows of andesite rock, and molten lava engulfed Pompeii, and Herculaneum. These cities were buried in fine ash, pumice, and pyroclastic deposits, while a toxic cloud of gas descended upon Pompeii (History.com staff, 2009). Around 2,000 died from the eruption, either from…

1950 Volcano eruption in Mauna Loa The eruption in 1950 had caused a lot of damage to the city of Hilo. The city of Hilo is now built on the old lava that had flowed from the volcano. The volcano of Mauna Loa is located in Hawaii. There’s not many organisms like people or even animals that live near the volcano because, they now know that the volcano is active. The volcano rises about 13,680 ft above sea level. It is obviously very hot near the volcano because it has magma in it that is about…

On June 15, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo erupted. Volcanologists successfully predicted the eruption and issued a warning ahead of time, which allowed minimal casualties. The stakes for failing to predict an eruption accurately are high. If one fails to predict an eruption and it happens then lives and property can be lost; however, if one does predict and eruption and it does not happen then one’s personal reputation can be damaged or destroyed. In the case of Mt. Pinatubo, the U.S. volcanologists…