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    people were buried and lost until the discovery made in 1738. This city is known as the lost city of Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that consists alternate layers of ash and lava. Stratovolcanos have two types of eruption, one type where it produces mostly ash and cinders, second type where it produces lava. Mount Vesuvius is said to be a hundred of thousands years old. The volcano has a record of 50 over eruptions, with its most significant eruption in 79 CE. The city of…

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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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    Kilauea Vs Fujiyama Essay

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    Hawaii’s Kilauea versus Mount Fujiyama Ever since I was a little girl I have always been fascinated with volcanoes. How do they work? How hot is the lava exactly? Can you travel down into the funnel of a volcano, and if so how and will you survive? And do all volcanoes function the same way? As a child, we never understood that the beautiful hot magma that flows from the volcano is dangerous and burns everything in its path. Two volcanoes that have always caught my eye is Hawaii’s Kilauea and…

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    Vesuvius Research Paper

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    the only one to erupt in 100 years. Which makes it strange that more people are living around it, than any other volcano region anywhere in the world, two million to be exact! It’s classified as a stratovolcano. That means that it was built up when lava, and other stuff that spewed out of the volcano, hardened; building up layers.Mt. Vesuvius is currently 4300 feet tall. The name may have been derived from a latinized…

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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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    Mount Vesuvius Essay

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    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…

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    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…

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    Volcanoes Research Paper

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    happen, volcanoes can erupt. This means that the gases and melted rock below shoot up through the opening and spill over as lava. Eruptions can lead to lava flows, falling ash, mudslides, and much more. How do volcanoes form? Volcanoes form when magma deep within the Earth makes its way to the surface. When the volcano erupts, lava spills over and ash rains down. Each time the lava and ash deposits cool, they create a bigger and bigger volcano. When do volcanoes erupt? The outer shell of the…

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    The Galapagos Island is apart of Ecuador that caused by the volcanic eruption and lava accumulation of many years ago, It’s a paradise for most adventurer. On the Galapagos have a many creatures and species even though plants and animals. So they are not in another islands and we have an example to show you all. “Galapagos tortoises” are known to be the biggest and oldest tortoises in the world. The average life span of these tortoises are 170 years or more because they are listed as endangered…

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    the times the volcano itself gives early signs of eruption. Some of those signs are small earthquakes beneath the volcano, swelling or increase heat and gases coming out of the volcano. A volcano is a mountain or hill, having a crater or vent where lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gases are being released from the earth's crust. One of the many active volcanos in the world is Mount Agung. Mount Agung to this day is still one of the many active volcanos in the world. Mount Agung is located…

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