Mt Nyrigongo

Question 1

What type of volcano is it ?

Answer 1

Active stratovolcano located in African Rift Valley.

Question 2

What PB is it associated with?

Answer 2

Constructive.
2 continental plates pull apart.
Nubian - west.
Somali - east.

Question 3

Describe how Rift Valley forms?

Answer 3

Because plates are similar density and Buoyancy no subduction occurs.
2 plates move apart and brittle crust fractures and areas of crust drop down into parallel faults - Rift Valley .
As the crust thins due to tension magma forces its ways up

Question 4

What type of magma?

Answer 4

Basaltic
Low viscous 
Low silica 
Not explosive 
Runny

Question 5

What did it record on VEI

Answer 5

1

Not explosive

Question 6

What happens as the plates separate?

Answer 6

Magma continuously moves from mantle

Question 7

Crater?

Answer 7

250 m deep

2 km wide

Question 8

Largest lava lake

Answer 8

Xxxxxx

Question 9

How fast does lava flow ?

Answer 9

90 km hr

Question 10

How many eruptions ?

Answer 10

Since 1882 , 34

Question 11

Gas emissions ?

Answer 11

Co2

From fissure.

Question 12

What also accompanied volcano?

Answer 12

Earthquakes 5 on R scale

Question 13

How much did lava flows destroy ?

Answer 13

1/3 goma

Runway

Question 14

How many deaths

Answer 14

147
Gases
Contaminated water