Volcanoes (Unfinished)

Question 1

What % of volcanoes can monitoring be applied to?

Answer 1

20%

Question 2

What are Jokhalups?

Answer 2

Floods caused by sudden release of water and rocks when glacial ice is melted by volcanic eruption.

Question 3

What are cyclic volcanic eruptions?

Answer 3

Volcanic eruptions with recurrent activity with periods of quiescence followed by eruptive episodes, influenced by the movement of magma beneath the earth’s crust.

Question 4

What are pyroclastic flows?

Answer 4

Explosive volcanic eruptions that produce fast-moving currents of hot gas and volcanic matter.

Question 5

What are Shield Volcanoes?

Answer 5

Volcanoes with low viscosity lava, allowing gas to escape and resulting in less explosive eruptions with lava flows as a primary hazard

Question 6

What are Composite volcanoes?

Answer 6

Volcanoes that often produce explosive eruptions with pyroclastic flows and ashfall