Lava Records

These amazing beautiful towers of volcanoes on the ocean floor vary in every way which only makes them more mysterious and fascinating. The first discovery of a hydrothermal vent was aboard a 3-person submersible named Alvin in 1977 at the Galapagos Rift (WHOI, 2004). This vent was a discovery of warm fluids mixing with cold ocean water rising from the ocean floor crust (WHOI, 2004). “In 1979, a second hydrothermal system was discovered along the East Pacific Rise” (WHOI,2004). This discovery…

Some of the reports came from crew members that were on ships sailing along the Sunda Strait. The vessels were American, British, Dutch, Australian and German. Members from all of these ships witness the events and were able to record what took place. Captain MacKenzie witnessed black clouds hovering above. Across the open sea were grey waterspouts. People in Ketimbang even experienced it. Willem Beyerinck and his wife both were there. The wife took note down in her journal once…

Mount Vesuvius – Italy Hypothesis: The impact of active volcanoes overlooking settlements pose as huge threats. With eruptions of volcanoes comes mud, ash and rocks leading to settlements being buried under the debris. Volcanoes also lead to lava flows and ash-and-gas explosions which damage and destroy many settlements/towns around the volcano. In worst case scenarios, eruptions of volcanoes lead to death of people and wildlife. Therefore we can deduct that a volcano is a geographical problem…

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” Those were the last words anyone heard from David Johnson. He had been closely monitoring a steaming, trembling snow-capped mountain near Vancouver, Washington. Mount St. Helens had not erupted in over 100 years. But two months earlier, an earthquake had jolted it to life. Homes were evacuated and roads were closed as hundreds of explosive blasts of steam burst from the volcano and earthquakes shook the area. Scientists knew that pressure was building up…

Volcanoes Volcanoes are magnificent yet dangerous structures created by the forces of nature when Earth’s tectonic plates diverge and collide against each other letting the Earth vent out pent up gases, magma, rock, and ash. There are three types of volcanoes called Shield, Stratovolcanoes, and Cinder cones. Volcanoes are further labeled as active, dormant, or extinct depending on recent activity. The magma underneath the Earth’s mantle is responsible for the explosion and creation of volcanoes…

1 Introduction Since the eruption in 1980, the area around Mount St. Helens has rebounded in ways that were somewhat unexpected, with recovery coming not only from the surrounding area, but from within the barren expanse that remained after the eruption. While not the first eruption overall, this eruption was the first to occur on the U.S mainland in a time when modern scientific monitoring could track the events associated with it. Smaller earthquakes in March of 1980 eventually led to the…

material and almost no lava” (Volcano Types). Cinder cones are small volcanoes and tend to only rise about 1,000 feet and their craters are small and have steep sides. Though usually classified as a major volcano, they are much smaller than most other major volcanoes and can sometimes even form along the sides of shield and composite volcanoes. Composite volcanoes, also known as stratovolcanoes, are “symmetrical cones of large dimension built of alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash,…

Loowit to the Klickitat. Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano or composite volcano, a steepsided and often symmetrical cone constructe. Thess type of volcanoes tend to erupt explosively and pose considerable danger to nearby life and property of lava flows, ash, and other volcanic debris. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St. Helens in the late 18th century. The last eruption was on March 20, 1980. A 5.1- magnitude earthquake hit Mount St. Helen…

also created one of the biggest volcanic eruptions in it’s continent own continent. Towering at an outstanding 1 277 m or 1.277km in length. This volcano is known to demolish valley’s and places near it at an instant, due to it’s heavy and continuous lava flow when it has erupted. Mt Vesuvius is also well know for it’s toxic ash and debris because these substances caused the bodies of many people in Pompeii to rot. The last eruption of Mt Vesuvius was in…

The fragile molds were casted in the 19th century to preserve them further. A lot of mystery lays round them, because these people seemed to be frozen in time in contorted positions. It has recently been discovered that lava was not the cause of death for these people, the lava would have taken six days to reach the people of Pompeii. For decades, it was thought that the ash killed them by suffocation. A cast found covering their mouth seemed to prove this. But today, it is shown that this may…