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    atmosphere is made up of Nitrogen (N2), Oxygen (O2) and a small amount of other gases. However the early earth which was formed 4.5 billion years ago was made up of Ammonia (NH4) and Carbon Dioxide (Co2). 4 billion years ago the world was covered with volcanos. The volcanoes released Carbon Dioxide (CO2) methane (CH4) and water vapour. The oxygen levels were 0.000%, also meaning no oxygen. 3.2 billion Years ago life of bacteria was forming and increasing. This made food by breaking down…

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    Archaeological Project Mount Vesuvius: Pompeii On August 24, in the year 79 A.D., the Vesuvius volcano erupted suddenly in southern Italy. Rock and ash covered the urbanized city of 25,000: Pompeii. The Roman colony was just recovering from a bad earthquake in 62 A.D. Mount Vesuvius had erupted more than 50 times before. 25 hours of pumice, rock, and ash being pumped out of the volcano and onto the vulnerable, unknowing town of Pompeii. About 2,000 people were killed in this eruption…

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    Introduction  We know or at least heard of Pompeii, the Italian city that was buried under the volcanic ash for many centuries until it was discovered.  In one unfortunate day, the city of Pompeii witnessed the wrath of the X mountain when a volcano erupted burying the city and its citizens under thousands of tons of volcanic ashes.  The story that I would like to talk about today is about a village that faced the same tragic fate as Pompeii. It is one of the most important historical…

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    Mount Vesuvius consists of a large cone that is partially encircled by a larger, deeper cone, which is the remains of an ancient somma volcano that has erupted and collapsed over time. Mount Vesuvius is located on Italy’s west coast and overlooks the Bay and city of Naples. Vesuvius stands about 4000 ft above sea level, and is part of the Companian volcanic arc, which is a line of volcanoes…

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    Why Do Volcanoes Occur

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    Russia, Japan, and South East Asia all the way to New Zealand. Many of the eruptions have occurred in these shore lines of the Pacific Ocean throughout history. In August of 1833 Indonesia a volcano blew itself into pieces creating the loudest sound recorded into history. In June of 1991 Philippines a volcano blasted 22 miles of debris into the air. In May 1980 Mount St. Helen caused 1 billion dollars of damage. It’s so important for scientist to find the sources that power these volcanoes to…

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    A Poem in relation to Natural Selection When one thinks of a giant crack of lighting whitening the sky or the massive roaring of an erupting volcano, the first thing that might befall their mind is violence and destruction. Watching the wrath of mother nature before your eyes can be disheartening. Several movies have depicted her power such as San Andreas (2015), and Geostorm (2017). While these movies are fictional they do display how terrifying nature can be to the frailty of life.…

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    Change is contradictory. Change can be as predictable as the tides rising and falling against the beach. It can also be as unpredictable as an earthquake that splits the ground and swallow homes whole. Many may try to resist the turn of the tide or the rumble of the earth, but there exists no way to avoid the inevitable. In a South Africa divided by apartheid, the old minded tribe struggles to strike a delicate balance with the new white rule with neither side willing to give into the other’s…

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    Mount St Helens

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    are records of volcanic activity in the mountain decades before, but this eruption is by far the worst. The mountain has been active for decades, and still is to this day. There have been reports of minor eruptions in 1898, 1903, and 1932. The volcano was relatively…

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    Why? Because it was formed by debris of volcanic origin which of course is also called a Lahar dam. This is the case with the Chakatchna River which was impounded by volcanic debris. The case study for this report is the Mount Spurr volcano which erupted in 1953 and 1992 resulting in the formation of Lahars that impounded the Chakatchna River (Juhle and Coulter, 1955; Meyer and Trabant,…

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    The San Francisco earthquake in 1906 was almost completely destroyed San Francisco. Buildings collapsed, fires were spread, and the city was left in shock and devastation. Mark Twain and Jack London each wrote an essay on the San Francisco earthquake describing the events that took place during, and after the earthquake; however, they each took a different approach stylistically on writing the essays. Mark Twain’s essay on the San Francisco earthquake was written to be humorous and was more…

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