Shield volcano

skies remained dark for days. It is by far the most destructive and violent volcano recorded in North America (Bagley). Mount St. Helens had been dormant for as long as we can remember. It had erupted on May 18, 1980 (Bagley). The eruption had costed millions and the wildlife and nature were destroyed. A future eruption is unlikely but you never know. Mount St. Helens is in the Washington State and is the most active volcano in the Cascade Range (USGS). The range has many active volcanoes…

Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines: Impacts and Human Actions The stratovolcano Mount Pinatubo began showing signs of erupting on the 15th of July 1991. Through a series of events Mt. Pinatubo erupted and effected the surrounding areas. Throughout this paper will be discussed the impacts, including primary and secondary, along with impacts changed by humans. Mount Pinatubo eruption was the second largest eruption in the 20th century, making it have many impacts not only locally but globally. Mount…

Muriwai is on the west coast of the Auckland Region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is due west of the Hauraki Gulf on the east coast and about mid-way between the entrances to the Auckland harbour (north) and the Manukau harbour (south). Maori Bay (to the south) is separated from Muriwai Beach and Otakamiro Point, with its steep cliffs and rocky nesting areas. The environment under study is about 3km long, from the Okiritoto stream in the north to Maori Bay in the south. Muriwai Coastal…

Volcanos affect us and our environment in many ways, some are bad, and some are good. The environment is one of the beautiful things the earth has to offer, and volcanos are one of the things that are helping it and harming it. How do volcanos affect us and our environment? Volcanos are one of the most spectacular and beautiful features of the physical world on the other hand, great volcanic eruption in historic times have brought death and destruction to many areas around the world. Erupting…

1. The two genera of Eocene fossil primates I choose are Eosimias and Darwinius. Eosimias was first described in 1999 and discovered in 1994 by Christopher Beard. Darwinius was discovered and described in 1983 at the Messel pit. 2. Eosimias lived during the middle Eocene age in Southern China (Fleagle 397). The fossil itself was collected Jiangsu Providence, China. Darwinius also lived during the middle Eocene in Europe, particulary Germany. Darwinius masillae was discorvered southeast of…

The Western Cordillera is found standing along the western edge of the continent. Made of ranges and ranges of mountains separated by occasional plateaus and valleys. Many provinces found in this region are British Columbia, Yukon Territories, Southwest Alberta, and parts of Northwest Territories. The mountain ranges found here are not as old as the other regions, as they are not yet rounded hills. These mountains occurred when the North American and Pacific plates collided, that spans…

Utah has two most known canyons. Big and Little cotton canyons which were created by the intensive glacial scenery in the Wasatch Range. Both of these canyons between 20.000 to 10.000 years and years ago, with many of other basins were compiled with hundreds of feet of ice glaciers. Specifically the little cottonwood canyon glacier that went and reached over to extend into Lake Bonneville. These glaciers carried significant amount of rocks which till this day were able to witness as they carved…

Dynamic Planet is an amazing branch of science. From oceanography, to currents, to plate tectonics, all of the subtleties of the dynamic planet are unique in their own ways. Our Earth, itself, is a dynamic planet. The planet contains over one thousand volcanoes, forty thousand earthquakes, and almost two hundred impact craters. All of these features come from the Earth constantly being in motion. The Earth has powerful forces that are caused by nature. Most of which can’t be seen but felt…

fossils. Relative dating is used to organize geological events, and the rocks they leave behind in a sequence. A geological event is basically a severe natural event that happens in the crust of earth that is normally harmful like an earthquake or a volcano . The method of reading the order is called stratigraphy…

magma chamber encompasses half of the park above it and extends almost 5 miles deep (Adah, 2016). This makes Yellowstone’s magma chamber the largest known on Earth. Since Yellowstone is a supervalcano, an eruption would have a magnitude of 8 on the Volcano Explosively Index. At this magnitude, Yellowstone would release over 250 cubic miles of magma (Yellowstone Park, n.d.-h). Scientists discovered that Yellowstone has had three super…