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🌋3.1.5.3 - Volcanic Hazards Flashcards

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What type of lava is rich in silica?

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Slow flowing, viscous lava

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What is generally erupted from volcanoes at destructive margins?

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Lava bombs, ash, dust

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What are lava flows?

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Streams of molten rock that pour or ooze from an erupting vent

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What are the two types of lava?

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Pahoehoe and A’a

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What are the characteristics of pahoehoe lava?

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Smooth, billowy surface, relatively thin

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What are the characteristics of A’a lava?

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Rough, jagged surface and thick lava

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When lava solidifies, what does it form?

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Igneous rock

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What are the main gases that lead to acid rain?

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Carbon Dioxide and Sulphur Dioxide

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How can acid raid impact the environment?

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Polluting waterways and soil, killing plants and trees, dissolving rock

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What is ash made up of?

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Fragments of pulverised rock, minerals and volcanic glass

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How is ash formed?

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When dissolved gases in magma expand and escape violently into the atmosphere in explosive eruptions

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How fast can pyroclastic flows move?

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700km/h

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How do pyroclastic flows form?

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Form collapse of an eruption column, colapse of lava domes, or ‘boiling over’

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What are lahars triggered by?

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Heavy rain or large amounts of ground water flowing through rocks as it causes the top layer of soil to be removed

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How can tephra lead to a pyroclastic flow?

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If the rock fragments are hot enough to fuse together

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How can tephra cause a temperature drop?

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If they reflect light and heat from the sun while in the atmosphere

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What can form part of a nuees ardentes?

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Pyroclastic flow

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What attempted control was used on Mauna Loa in 1935?

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Bombing lava tubes

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How was Eldfell’s lava controlled on Heimay in 1973?

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It was blasted with freezing sea water to cool it rapidly

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How was Mount Etna controlled in 1983?

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Barriers of rock and ash were constructed to divert the lava

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How can volcanoes be monitored using geological observations?

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A tiltmeter can be used to measure slope angle and bulges, and GPS to measure horizontal movements caused by expansion before an eruption

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How can volcanoes be monitored using seismic activity?

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Seismographs measure earthquakes around a volcano as it prepares to erupt

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How can gas emissions be used to monitor volcanic activity?

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As magma nears the surface and pressure decreases, gases escape. Sulphur dioxide is released as large amounts reach the surface, and concentrations can be measured

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What is the main disadvantage of monitoring volcanoes using seismic activity?

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Most volcanoes are on plate boundaries, so it can be difficult to distinguish between volcanic earthquakes and routine tremors

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Formation of shield volcanoes

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Plates move apart
Magma rises to surface, cools = new crust
Sea floor spreading
Layers built by eruptions
Sea floor spreading = plates move apart

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Shield volcano example

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Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland

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Shield volcano characteristics

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Gentle sloping sides
Wide base
Low viscosity lava - BASALTIC
Frequent, basic lava eruptions

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Shield volcano explosivity

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Low, as magma under little pressure

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Composite volcano boundary

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Destructive

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Formation of composite volcanoes

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Plates move towards eachother
Oceanic, denser, subducts
Beinoff Zone
Less dense molten material rises
Layers of ash and lava build

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Composite volcano example

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Montserrat

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Composite volcano characteristics

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Steep sided
Layers of ash, dust, lava
Viscous lava - RHYOLITIC
Long dormant periods

33
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Composite volcano explosivity

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High, as magma rises in plumes through fissures in buckled continental plate- high pressure

34
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Volcanoes in rift valleys formation

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Rising magma
Brittle continental crust buckles and fractures
= Fault lines
Plates move further apart
Crust between parallel faults drops down
= Rift Valley
Thin crust
Magma forces its’ way to the surface

35
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Volcanoes at hotspots formation

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Concentration of radioactive elements below crust
Plume of magma rises
Breaks through surface

36
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Why do extinct volcanoes subside at hotspots?

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As they have put so much pressure on the crust

37
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Volcanic Explosivity Index

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Volcanic Explosivity Index

38
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VEI meaning

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Logarithmic scale (0-8)
Measures height of eruption column and volume of tephra erupted

39
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Disadvantages of VEI

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Doesn’t consider climate impact
Ash, lava and lava bombs all treated alike

40
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Icelandic Eruption

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Basaltic lava flows gently from fissures

41
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Highest and Lowest Categories on VEI?

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Icelandic = lowest
Plinian = highest

42
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Plinian Eruption

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Highly explosive and violent, with tephra and pyroclastic fall out

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Tephra Meaning

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Solid material (ash-bombs) ejected into the atmosphere

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Pyroclastic Flow / Nuees Ardentes Meaning

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Fast moving current of hot gas and tephra
Up to 1000°c
Little warning = death and destruction

45
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What are the secondary effects of pyroclastic flows?

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Snow melt
Damming streams

46
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What are the secondary effects of tephra?

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Grounding air traffic
Destroy vegetation- famine
Improve soil fertility

47
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What 4 factors affect the distance tephra travels?

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Height of eruption column
Temperature of air
Wind speed
Wind direction

48
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What 4 things are lava flows affected by?

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Land steepness
Extrusion rate
Silica content
Flow temperature

49
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What temperatures are lava flows between?

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550°c - 1400°c

50
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Why are lava flows not a big hazard?

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Because of their slow speed

51
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Mudflow / Lahar Meaning

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Volcanic material + water (rainfall or ice melt)

52
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What’s the difference between mudflows and lahars?

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Lahars set like concrete

53
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Name some of the gases released by a volcano

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Water vapour
Carbon dioxide
Sulphur dioxide- acid rain

54
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Where does CO2 seep through the volcano and kill plants?

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Mammoth Mountain

55
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Why are tiltmeters and GPS used to monitor volcanoes?

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Measure slope angles
Indicates expanding magma chamber

56
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Why are seismometers and seismographs used to monitor volcanoes?

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Microquakes
Rising magma fractures overlying rock

57
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Why are magnetometers used to monitor volcanoes?

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Changing magnetism indicates rising iron-rich magma

58
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Protection- Land Use Planning

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Build houses away from high risk areas

59
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Preparation- Why should there be good communication systems?

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To alert and update people

60
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Preparation- There should be suitable ____ put aside to deal with an emergency

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Funds

61
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Preparation- Residents in high risk areas…

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Need evacuating

62
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Preparation- What should an emergency supply kit contain? Where should it be placed?

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Tinned food
Battery radio
Torch
Cash
Breathing mask
IN A CAR

63
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Preparation- What should be included in a family emergency plan?

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How to contact eachother
How to meet
What you will do in an emergency

64
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East African Rift Valley

A

African plate
Splitting into Somali and Nubian
Created Kilimanjaro

65
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3 ps

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Prediction, protection and preparation

66
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Bombing lava tubes

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. In theory, bombs would destroy the lava tubes, ruining transport channel + exposing lava to air cooling it
. But in practice, while bombs created craters in parts of the tubes, they were soon filled again by the lava

67
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What are lava tubes

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Cooled and hardened outer crusts of lava which provide insulation for the faster-flowing, molten rock inside

68
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Lava control: water

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. Lava stoped in the 1970s on Haimey (Iceland)
. For five months in 1973, sea water was blasted through cannons towards the lava
. As water hit the superheated rock, it turned into steam, allowing the lava’s heat to dissipate
. But conditions were right and lava was slow moving

69
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Lava control: build a barrier

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. Mount Etna, in March 1983
. Barriers of rock and ash were constructed to divert the lava
. One of the first barriers, 18m high and 10m wide, was overrun, but a second barrier blocked lava from moving further west

70
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Lahars

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. Mixture of hot or cold water and rock fragmented which flow down the steep side of a volcano
. Grow as they travel picking up material

71
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Eruption styles: Icelandic

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. Low viscosity and highly effusive
. May have water therefore phreatic
. Lava flows gently from fissures
. Basaltic lava

72
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Eruption styles: Hawaiian

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. Effusive, minor explosivity, with fire fountain and low viscosity lava flow
. Lava flows gently from a central vent
. Basaltic lava

73
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Eruption styles: Strombolian

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. Eruption with gas bubbles so eject tephra
. Frequent explosions of tephra and steam
. Occasional, short lava flows
. Thicker basaltic magma

74
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Eruption styles: Vulcanian

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. Higher gas build up than Strombolian highly viscous lava
. A series of short lived explosions, with tephra including bombs, ash and gases
. Thicker basaltic, andestic and rhyolitic magma

75
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Eruption styles: Pelean

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. Explosive eruptions with range of tephra with nuee ardent (glowing cloud) pyroclastic flows
. Andesitic and rhyolitic magma

76
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Eruption styles: Plinian

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. Highly explosive, large eruption column (up to 45km) range of tephra and pyroclastic fallout, including flows
. Torrential rainstorms cause Lahars
. Rhyolitic magma

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