Magma

what it looked like and we went to stepping on the chocolate which made metamorphic rock. Than we went to the heat plate and we put the bag of chocolate in the hot water and it turned the chocolate into a warm/liquidy substance that is called the magma. Materials and Methods The materials that was used in the lab was White and brown chocolate Cheese shredder Plastic bag Cup of warm water Heavy textbook First both the white and brown chocolate was shredded into the cheese shredder separately,…

and one being lava. Imperial College of London defines these types of volcanoes as steep-sided volcanic edifices consisting of pyroclastic material and lava flow that dip away from central vents and mostly consist of characteristic of intermediate magmas. Therefore, because Stromboli is such a powerful volcano, many may believe that it is highly dangerous. “Stromboli is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth and has been erupting almost continuously since 1932” (Ball). Because of its constant…

Exploration to Destruction Since man has been put on the Earth there has always been a curiosity for the unknown, especially for what lies beyond the Earth. We have gone from only being able to see the moon and stars with our naked eyes to studying Pluto and landing on the Moon. There are many different ways that we discover planets and many different components that we study. Some examples of what we use to find planets are the Doppler Effect, Astrometry, Transit Photometry, and Direct Imaging…

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…

Planet Z vs. Planet Io Liquid water, an energy source, and organic compounds are the three main things that are needed to support life. Planet X and Jupiter’s moon, Io are very interesting celestial bodies that could have life living on it. Although I think one planet is more likely to support life than the other, I think that life would be more likely on Planet Z than Io. Also, Planet Z has more of the requirements for life than Io. Another reason is that Planet Z has more Earth-like qualities…

The Rio Grande Rift is a major component of the Sourthern Rocky mountain region. that extends from the center of Colorado, U.S.A., all the way down into Chihuahua, Mexico (Chapin, 1994) (figure 1). The area has long been used by humans as a north south trade route and also goes by the name “El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro” (“The Royal Road of the Interior Land”). The understanding of this rift zone is also an area of importance because it contains valuable resources such as hydrocarbons,…

modern history. It reached thirty thousand miles away. Anyone within the first hundred miles became deaf. This was in eighteen eighty three, so they had no idea what was going on. We now know that the initial eruption allowed sea water into the the magma chamber. The water boiled instantaneously creating…

volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 7. On the day of the eruption the explosion was heard from approximately 2000 kilometres away among the Sumatran islands. Mount Tambora is described as a Stratovolcano a large volcan layered within with ash and magma form past devastations. Mount Tambora was created and formed by the active subduction zone beneath it. The subduction zone consists of the Australian plate and the Eurasian plate squeezing together at such force that the Australia plate slides…

Various minerals and a grainy texture were also observed. Because of this, and identification of minerals such as quartz, as observed in figure 6, and orthoclase, in figure 9, this rock was concluded to be the igneous rock, granite. Granite forms when magma under the Earth slowly crystallizes. Igneous rock forms when there is an “intrusion” of igneous rock into the preexisting rock formed by sediment. The types of bedrock observed in Barrington are granite, quartz monazite, and granodiorite. …

CHAPTER ONE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION Pan African Orogen (PAO) was formerly introduced by Kennedy (1964) to designate the peak of a wide spread orogenic thermo-tectonic episode characterized by intense period of reactivation and crustal formation. The term Pan African Orogen was used to describe the structural differentiation of Africa into cratons and mobile belts during the Neoproterozoic to earliest Paleozoic time (Kennedy, 1964). However, Kröner (1984) reformulate…