Shield volcano

Daily life in Pompeii The entire top of Mt.Vesuvius blew off and a huge, black cloud of ash and poisonous gases rose into the air. Twenty feet of ash and poisonous gases covered Pompeii and almost killed all of its people. Even though there are some differences of how people lived their lives in 79 A.D., they have many similarities including their values and interests, being an advanced society, and being a time capsule. To begin, the people of Pompeii had similar values and interests that we…

There are a total of ten different landscape regions located within the Pacific Northwest. The rocks that are within each region provide the foundation for the landscape within the region. The study of the rock located in the region tells us about the geologic past and provides insight on the materials and processes from which the landscape was formed. I will briefly discuss each of the areas and provide insight on the types of rocks in which they are formed from. We will start with the Basin…

volcanic eruption. Next, I will discuss how buoyancy can also trigger a volcanic eruption. Finally, I will predict how pressure from gases in the magma and magma chamber can cause a volcanic eruption,and give some more details about my volcano. It depends on the volcano to erupt oftenly. Some volcanoes erupt very often (and some like Kilauea almost never stop). On the other hand, some volcanoes are inactive for very long periods of time between eruptions.There are several factors triggering a…

world, some may be dormant then may become active. There are some volcanoes that destroyed all of the living things around them, such as, Vesuvius, and Mt. St Helens. Some volcanoes are very different from the others. There could be different ways a volcano could erupt. Vesuvius and Mt. St Helens both destroyed a great amount of land around them. Furthermore, the two volcanoes caused Earth quakes. In addition, these two volcanoes are one of the most famous volcanoes. According to my blogs, “…

This report is about Mount Etna. Mount Etna is a volcano found in Italy. “Mount Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe and one of the world's most frequently erupting volcanoes.” (Mount Etna: Facts) Mount Etna’s earliest known eruption was in 6190 BCE. The second known eruption was in 5150 BCE. These eruptions are known because of radiocarbon found in the area. The date of when this volcano was formed is not certain like most volcanos this one was formed on plate boundaries. Mount Etna is…

The reason being the display seems really normal and there seem to be a lot of open space. Pompeii was an ancient city in southern Italy. The remains of the settlement are located near to Naples. The city of Pompeii was built at the foot of the volcano, Mount Vesuvius. If I had to choose which website site was most dramatic I would have to say Pompeii Google Project…

The theory that today's continents were once part of a more complex and large super-continent, also referred to as “Pangaea”, was first introduced by Alfred Wegener. Wegener, the German meteorologist and geophysicist, formally initiated the detailed hypothesis that the once intact, large, continent had slowly drifted to their present positions. Although others brought fourth evidence, plate tectonics processes and continental drift was not of interest until the late 1950s, when scientists…

building under Mt. Vesuvius. Mt. Vesuvius is a volcano that is still active to this day but, in 79 A.D. the volcano erupted wiping away the city of Pompeii and killing almost everyone in the city. The eruption killed over 16,000 people and it wiped away all the belongings of the people who did make it out alive. The eruption was a total surprise. No warning was given because the volcano eruption was completely unpredictable. Mt. Vesuvius is the only volcano known to be active on mainland…

was all the warning the residents had before the nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted. Huge quantities of scalding hot ash, pumice and lava pebbles were thrown into the sky. This then cascaded down across an extensive area. Most of the 20,000 residents fled for their lives but approximately 2,000 people stayed behind and hoped to wait out the disaster in their homes. Those who stayed behind could not escape the onslaught of the volcano and were suffocated by the ash. The ash later…

According to the US National Park Service: “About ten thousand years ago the last Valley glacier that melted and created a shallow lake, which is Lake Yosemite. Lake Yosemite eventually filled in with silt, leaving today's level Valley floor.” Rocks also make up a lot of Yosemite, as it is mostly made up of plutonic igneous rocks. Granite, granodiorite, tonalite, Yosemite Valley first started forming Eighty to twenty-five million years ago. The causes that contributed to this great formation…