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Volcanic bombs

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accrue after explosive eruptions and are pyroclastic material and partially molten >66mm

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Lahars

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Mudflows made of a mixture of liquid water and pyroclastic materials and for from rain during eruptions

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3
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Phahoehoe flows

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smooth quicker ropy surface

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Aa flows

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blocks and fragments slow

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Supervolcanos

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volcanoes that erupt hundreds of square kilometers of material and produce huge calderas Ex: in yellow stone in the past 2 million years caused by a mantle plume. These leave behind calderas and change the climate by making it cooler and can lead to death.

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Felsic magma

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More viscous than mafic magma because felsic magma is higher in silica and is cooler because it contains more water vapor

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Basalt plateaus

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Fluid mafic lava erupts from long fissures then flows and overlaps

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dominant gas

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makes up a big part of earths atmosphere after eruptions and is water vapor

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9
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Famous calderas

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Yellowstone
Crater lake oregan

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Nuee ardent

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hot clouds of pyroclastic materials and gas from lava domes

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Volcanic explosivity index

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from 0-8
measures explosive intensity of an eruption

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12
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Iceland volcano

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lwas a pyroclastic eruption and left behind ash traveling far in the wind

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13
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Interpolate Volcanism

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Hot spot Volcanism
Ex: Hawaiian chains which originated from a stationary mantle plume

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14
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Extinct volcanoes

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haven’t erupted in many years and show no signs of future eruptions

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15
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pillow lava

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bulbus interconnections masses from underwater eruption of basalt

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16
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What do geologists use to measure eruptions

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Volume of material erupted
Eruption cloud height

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Fissure eruptions

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fluid magma erupts from fissures and form basalt plateaus

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Pyroclastic sheet deposit

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Huge sheet like eruptions of solid magma and ash. Covers large areas after eruptions from fissures and calderas formation. They are felsic or Inrermediate.

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What do geologists look for when determining weather a volcano is about to erupt

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Timeters and geometer record physical and chemical changes at volcanoes semesters detect harmonic tremors and gas emissions

20
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Where Volcanism occurs

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Cir-cum pacific belt-convergent
Mediterranean belt-convergent
Mid-ocean ridges-divergent
Hot spots
All under ocean

21
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5 Maine volcanoes

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Lava domes
Composite
Caldera
Cinder cone
Sheild

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Shield Volcano

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gentle slopes
made of basalt and mafic pyroclasts
effusive(non-explosive
little danger

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Cinder cone

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Pyroclastic and cinders
Steepest
smaller
most form in calderas or on sides of larger volcanos

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Composite volcano

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Layers of lava flows, mud flows and pyroclastic debris
most dangerous
convergent
largest
intermediate

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Lava domes

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Felsic or intermediate
form when viscous lava is forced through conduit
eject nuee ardentes
form when the lava slowly emits up piling up creating the dome shape until it bursts

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calderas

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volcanic depression formed when the middle collapses into magma chamber

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Underground structure

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Pipe- conduit leading up to magma chamber beneath the surface
Crater- depression in middle

28
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Active volcanoes in the Us

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Mt snt helans
Medicine Lake
Three sisters
Baker
yellowstone
Mt rainer-takoma washington

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Why are volcanoes on the west coast of north America and not on the east ?

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subduction is on the west side by the Pacific belt on the east coast is the passive continental margin

30
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When have volcanos changed the climate

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Year without summer- Tambora 1815

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