Shield volcano

I bet while your reading these words, at least 20 volcanoes are erupting. That’s crazy! So how do volcanoes affect the environment? Well there are many ways actually, one way is that they create super rich soils after the molten lava rocks get weathered into a soil. Another way is how much they erupt, with this much erupting, they could create more mountains or volcanoes that take up space and destroy some of our places. Roughly, each year through the 90’s 60 Volcanoes erupt and there was about…

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is in between the African Plate and South American Plate. It lies in between these two plates that are moving away from each other slowly. Although as a result of the separation of the two plates earthquakes occur and magma comes out making new crust. The magma comes out from a series of volcanoes that cool to make new crust. Crust closer to the rift is newer than the crust farther from the rift. The splitting of the African and South American Plate makes a divergent…

Lava wasn’t always called “lava” it wasn’t till 1737 after the Mount Vesuvius eruption that it got its name. Reason being that it got its name is because it oozes from the sides of the volcano which in Latin its root word means to fall or ooze. There is a difference between magma and its close brother lava. Magma is liquid rock that is still inside the earth and has yet to come out. Lava on the other hand is magma that is no longer inside…

have been many volcano eruption occurred in New Mexico. Through these eruption we can make a prediction of what will happen in the future. I look at the Figure V1 that shows the location, age, and composition of volcanoes and volcanic rocks in New Mexico. Figure V2 shows the histogram of ages for volcanic rocks in the Jemez Mountains. Figure E1 shows the important large-scale tectonic features. After looking at Figure VI and V2 i noticed there is relationship between varies Volcano locations in…

People have travelled across the entire globe searching for the city of Atlantis. They have dived into the deepest depths of the sea, and have climbed mountain ranges all in the pursuit of discovery. At least half a dozen expeditions are launched each year, and some explorers would swear they were successful. Professionals claim that the most likely location of Atlantis is a small island called Santorini which is off the coast of Greece. It would seem as though Plato described this exact place…

Obsidian can be found in countries where eruptions have occurred such as the United States, Turkey, Scotland, Peru, New Zealand, Mexico, Kenya, Japan, Italy, Iceland, Guatemala, El Salvador, Greece, Georgia, Chile, Canada, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Argentina. Obsidian is volcanic lava that has cooled and is often referred to as volcanic glass. The name obsidian originated from a Roman named Obsius, a man who discovered a gemstone very similar in nature to obsidian. Its black, glassy, shiny and…

around. How do volcanoes affect people and the environment? Volcanoes spread ash, rock, and lava for miles once they erupt. The soil that becomes after volcanic explosions are often the richest soils on Earth. The land from what you can see around a volcano is a wonderful sight people say. There are many known volcanoes that erupt all the time and spread stuff everywhere. “We do not really have an accurate count of the world’s volcanoes, but there are at least a thousand identified magma…

Volcanoes are mountains that can erupt to spew molten rock everywhere. A volcano can be formed in different ways like hotspots or tectonic plates. The tectonic plates can form volcanoes by forming convergent or transform boundaries. A convergent boundary is when two tectonic plates collide into each other, forming mountains. The transform boundaries form mountains when they slide into one another. Hotspots are formed when the magma is forced up to the Earth's surface. Before Mount St. Helens…

Section 1: Plate tectonics is the the theory that the outer crust of the earth is cut up into a lot of pieces called plate tectonics. The plate tectonics move around in the mantle. The mantle is the rocky middle layer of our earth it lies right above the core. The plates are very much like a shel going around the earth. The evidence of plate tectonics began as simply circumstantial evidence one example is continental drift which is the theory that all the continents used to be one giant…

lucky for you, I did some research on the place and gathered some pretty interesting facts and theories about Pompeii. It is located in Italy's Campania Region, near the coast of the Bay of Naples. The city of Pompeii was completely demolished by a volcano by the name of “Mount Vesuvius” in 79 A.D. Therefore, it destroyed almost the entire city. But this gives the archaeologists a chance to look at what's left and draw conclusions about what the people of Pompeii lived like on the…