The two volcanoes from these events are called stratovolcanos‚ meaning they are volcanoes built up of alternate layers of lava and ash(citation)‚ and cone shaped. Neither of these volcanoes are shield volcanoes‚ which are broad‚ domed volcanoes with gently sloping sides‚ characteristic of the eruption of fluid‚ basaltic lava(citation). Both of these volcano’s had a huge impacts on humans‚ human structures and property‚ and had very high damage costs. The major Mount St. Helens eruption was on
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The Lake Nyos Limnic Eruption occurred on August 21‚ 1986‚ in Cameroon‚ Africa. It happened 2 years after the Lake Monoun eruption‚ which killed 37 people. Both Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are crater lakes‚ which means they were created by an eruption around 500 years ago. They are the only volcanic lakes in the world other than Lake Kivu in Rwanda‚ Africa. A limnic eruption is created by a large amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. It releases no heat‚ no fire‚ no smoke‚
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The Grand Canyon was once a part of a continental collision about 1.7 billion years ago when volcanic islands collided in the south west of America‚ where the North American plate is now. Mountain building occurred about 75 million years ago when the uplift of almost 2 miles in the region‚ (called a Laramide orogeny event) started and created the Colorado Plateau. The rocks in the Grand Canyon were igneous or sedimentary rocks before the collision of tectonic plates. The collision pushed the plates
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itle: The Galapagos Marine Reserve: how co-managing can arise conflicts and unsuccessful. Background: Located in the Pacific Ocean‚ the Galapagos Archipelago is about 1000 kilometers (km) from mainland Ecuador. It is comprised of 19 islands and 107 islets‚ with a total land area of about 8000 km (Baine et al.‚2007). The exceptional nature of the Galapagos archipelago is given by its position‚ with three major oceans current converging together (Fig.2): a warm water stream coming from Panama‚ a cooler
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5.15 Pandora Type your translation below each Latin paragraph. Then answer the question about Prometheus. Pandora Forma feminae ab Vulcano* creabatur de terra. Ab Minerva ei (to her) vestes (clothes‚ nom. pl.) argenteae* donabantur. Etiam ei (to her) ab Vulcano corona aurea donabatur; Iuppiter ei (to her) ollam* donavit. Dei feminam pulchram amaverunt. Quod (Because) dei ei (to her) dona donaverunt‚ nomen (her name) erat Pandora. The form of the woman was created from earth by Vulcan. Clothes of
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HOW DOES ICELAND UTILIZE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY TO ITS ADVANTAGE? Geothermal energy. The first reason why Iceland utilizes its volcanic activity to its advantage is by using geothermal energy. Geothermal energy production works by the radioactive decay f several types of rocks containing radioactive substances (such as uranium) releasing heat energy. In the volcanic areas in Iceland‚ the rocks heat the water so that it then rises to the surface (naturally) as hot water and steam. The steam can then
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Thesis: Earthquakes have been a natural part of Earth for many years and are caused by a shift in the Earth’s tectonic plates. Tectonic plates shift when two separated pieces of Earth’s crust push together because of the pressure of the hot air below them pushing up on the plates from the heat of the Earth’s core. This pressure must be released somehow‚ so when the pressure becomes too great for the plates to withstand‚ one part of a plate gives way to the pressure by rising above the other part
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The four categories of human environmental hazards include cultural‚ physical‚ chemical‚ and biological hazards Environmental cultural hazard is the risk of damage to the environment involving air pollution form all of the massive factory’s and mills that are placed around the earth. Water pollution is a main hazard because it kills a lot of the aquatic life that we as humans feed on and it also kills the food that the food we eat feeds off to survive. Toxins like all of our trash that is getting
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ZXCSACZXC\XCZCZXCZ\XCZXCXZC\ZCCZXDuring a volcanic eruption‚ lava‚ tephra (ash‚ lapilli‚ volcanic bombs and blocks)‚ and various gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure. Several types of volcanic eruptions have been distinguished by volcanologists. These are often named after famous volcanoes where that type of behavior has been observed. Some volcanoes may exhibit only one characteristic type of eruption during a period of activity‚ while others may display an entire sequence of types
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The Alleghanian Orogeny was the building of the Appalachian Mountains in North America. Around 250 to 300 million years ago‚ the Alleghanian Orogeny was the last mountain building period for North America. The sediment from the Iapetus Ocean Basin was pushed up as Africa and North America collided head on. Same like the three other building periods‚ the crust was pushed upwards while being compressed and squeezed. The Appalachian Mountains stretched from Alabama to Canada. The evidence that
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