Lava

Excerpt from Keiko’s bomb The town exploded with a loud,rumbling sound. I looked up and faced the blinding light with intense heat. Seconds after, the ground started shaking with a vibration that I hadn't felt before. I ran as fast as I could, my heart thumping. Each step I took, my heartfelt heavier. As my hand grasped onto mythe thumping heart, I saw that my left hand was now all covered in blood. People seemed like they were flying in the air;he sound had stopped but the bodies were falling.…

Kyushu Figure 1.1: Map Japan Kyushu is the third biggest island located in the south of Japan. Kyushu has a subtropical climate and offers active volcano peaks, natural beauty and near-tropical coastlines (Lonely Planet, 2015). Mount Aso is the largest active volcano, which is situated in the Aso region in Kumamoto Prefecture (Organization, 2015). This is an opportunity to attract tourism to Kyushu. Infrastructure Fukuoka is the…

Life in Pompeii, Uncovered Bang! In the year 79 AD, the huge volcano, Mount Vesuvius erupted covering everything around for miles in 20 feet of stones and ash. Pompeii was one of the devastated cities. A cloud of poisonous gas from the volcano killed thousands of people. No one has lived in the city for almost 2,000 years. Even though Pompeii seemed destroyed, it had actually been perfectly preserved. In this essay, I will explain the aftermath, daily objects, and the similarities of Pompeii…

Out of the 1,006,619 square miles of protected area nationally, 132.8 square miles is home to one of the most fascinating dunes in the world. Being made a national monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover, The Great Sand Dunes in Colorado was recognized as a national park in 2004. It was made a national monument in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. It is home to many species of animals and plants, such as the American pikas and Entaphalleas. Through the breaking apart and movement of…

Amphibolite is a foliated metamorphic rock. The orientation of the foliation is 251/75. It has a gneiss foliation and stripes of minerals segregation. Minerals such as white Quartz, shinny Plagioclase, green Amphibole, and pistachio green (yellowish) epidote were seen on the fresh surface. Greenschist is coarse grained metamorphic rock that contains minerals such as yellow epidote, flakes of mica and green serpentine and chlorite. Metasediments with various colors were seen such as Quartzite…

Southern Europe includes countries of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Italian peninsula, southern France, and Greece. Also, includes the Balkan countries of Southeast Europe. It is a mountainous area and a Mediterranean Vegetation region that has mild climate. Alpine Orogeny is a phase formed fifty million years ago when the Eurasian continent plate and African continent plate collide together. The Alpine Orogeny produced intense metamorphism of rocks, crumpling of rock strata,…

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…

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…