Magma

Ridge Mountains. On one side of the mountains, the vast forest and lush valleys border the Blue Ridge mountains. Formed by the clashing of tectonic plates billions of years ago, the mountain range now houses the oldest rocks formed by the hardened magma, to more than 100 mammals. Approximately 8000 years ago, the Native Americans came to the land of what is now the National Park and collected nuts and berries. It wasn’t until about 300 years ago that people began…

Volcanoes exist all around the world. A volcano is a break in the Earth’s crust that produces lava, gases, ash. Some volcanoes are active and some volcanoes extinct and dormant. Magma usually forms 30 to 120 miles beneath Earth’s surface. Most volcanoes are tourist attractions and most people like to climb them and to live near them to produce some heat to there house when the people don't have any heat. Villarrica is located in the country of chile. Villarrica has a 4 star warning and…

Hot Springs National Park is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was established March 4, 1921. It is the smallest of all the national parks and is the only one that is almost inside a whole city. Hot Springs National Park has attracted many tourist and is a great place to go visit. It is extremely pretty and has many interesting places to go to. Its most famous attraction is the bathhouses, water. That's what first attracted people, and they have been coming here ever since to use the soothing…

subduction zone is created. Here the sliding of the Australian plate under the Eurasian plate creates a deep trench. The plate is saturated with water which contributes to the melting of the mantle wedge above the Australian plate. The magma between the plate cools, and if this magma reaches the surface, it causes a volcano to…

its effects on the physical properties of the Earth’s crust. Specifically, the belief that the flood was initiated as great portions of the oceanic floor sub ducted, leading to a series of events that included thermal runaway, leading to terrific magma ejections into the atmosphere, which in turn caused intense…

sediment was formed above him. However, this new sediment did not last long as he and the other rocks started to break down. He then succumbed to the pressure of Earth and went in the fiery depths of Earth’s mantle. He wasn’t there long however as magma was forced up to replace where two tectonic plates were forced upwards. The collision of these plates caused a mountain to be formed. On top of that mountain, glaciers were formed and poor Rockington was just dust inside of the…

Have you ever wanted ever watched Yogi Beat? Well Yellowstone is where he lives. YellowStone National Park was the first national park in the world. Some facts about YellowStone is that it’s 96% in Wyoming, 3% in Montana,and 1% in Idaho. Over 3 million people visit a year,with over 67 mammals. In YellowStone they have a geyser called “Old Faithful”. It erupts every 45 to 91 minutes and when it burst it’s over 100 degrees. Old Faithful rock is so hard and strong it with stands the heat from the…

record change picked up volcanic tremors, which meant that magma was on the move. In April, laser equipment detected changes in the mountain’s profile- an ominous swelling bulge forming between the fissures (Mary Bagely). Laser measurements showed a bulge was that growing at about five feet per day by late April. By May 17, a total of 10,000 earthquakes shook the volcano and the north flank had grown outward at least 450 feet to form a bulge (magma had risen high in the…

Karan Verma Mr. Nestor SES-4UO-A 10/28/2015 Geoscientist Biography Assignment Profile Richard Lee Armstrong 1937-1991 Lifespan and Background information: Richard was born August 4th 1937 in Seattle, Washington. He was a North American scientist best known for his work in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochronology and geochemical evolution of earth. He published over 170 scientific papers. He became a Canadian citizen and not long after he died of liver cancer on August 9th…

Geology The Field of Geology didn’t become a major field until World war II, when the sea floor was mapped out in detail for submarines revealing a mid-Atlantic underwater mountain range, and a rift which started the theory of Plate Tectonics. Plate tectonics are used to explain the forming of mountains and even continents after the Pangaea. Plate tectonics explains that continents could have broken up, but there are 2 major theories on how. Catastrophist’s believe that a series of catastrophes…