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    Pilgrim's Progress

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    filled with monsters. However‚ out of all the scenes‚ Christian’s encounter with the Worldly-Wiseman strikes attention best. Not only does he manipulate him‚ but a menacing hill almost crushes the pilgrim. Next‚ his teacher calls upon the skies‚ and magma spouts from its sinister peak. The signature smell of cow manure would surely haunt Christian for days. The Slough of Despond’s mud weighs down his burden and chafes his skin. Likewise‚ the grit in his mouth absorbs what little hydration he has

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    region of the United States of America. Mount Saint Helens is known to be one of the top 10 most famous volcanoes in the world due to the deadly pyroclastic flows and ash explosions well known to it. A volcano is a mountain with a vent at the top where magma and gasses from the earth’s Mantle erupt on the earths crust and turn into lava caused by the movement of the tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are big pieces of the lithosphere that

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    Smitha…… .geography-. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday‚ 26 December 2004‚ with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra‚ Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake.[4][5] The resulting tsunami was given various names‚ including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami‚ South Asian tsunami‚ Indonesian tsunami‚ and the Boxing Day tsunami. The earthquake was caused by subduction and

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    Natural Calamities A natural calamity is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of‚ or effecting‚ the Earth; examples include floods‚ severe weather‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ and other geologic processes. A natural calamity can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. A natural calamity are the side effects or the after effects

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    Minoan Culture Analysis

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    New knowledge about the Minoan culture has been revealed in the Island of Crete. In the video‚ Sandy McGillivray believes that the Knossos palace‚ the largest Cretan palace‚ was more of a temple rather than a palace to harness the power of the sun. He realized that each of the doorways aligns with the rising sun on different key days of the year‚ and believes that it is a solar temple‚ like the Egyptians who worshipped the sun‚ moon‚ and stars. In the palace‚ there were many potteries and fresco

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    Plate Tectonics

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    in California‚ pressure builds up when released it creates a severe earthquake. The difference between destructive and constructive margins is that destructive margins moves towards the continental crust causing it to go underneath it forcing the magma out if the volcano‚ yet the constructive margin tends to move away from a different plate which results in a volcano. Destructive margins also cause volcanoes this is a similarity that the destructive margins also has to the constructive

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    hardened lava‚ tephra (often called block rocks or bombs)‚ and volcanic ash and are characterized by a step profile and periodic and explosive eruptions. The lava is highly viscous or thick‚ it cools and hardens quickly before spreading far. The magma is composed of rock that is acidic‚ and high in silica. Mount Vesuvius reaches the height 1281 metres‚ while Mount Tambora reached the height of 4300 metres before it erupted in 1815. The crater is 6 km in diametre and 1‚100 metres deep.

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    net states‚ Wailea-Makena‚ Hawaii‚ East Maui County was caused by a hotspot or an extra hot plume of molten rock. This happens when heat rises as a thermal cloud from inside of the Earth. Heat and pressure at the bottom of the tectonic plate forces magma to form which then rises through cracks and erupts to form volcanoes. As volcanoes move away from a hotspot‚ they start to erode and become inactive. Maui is the third oldest volcano of the main Hawaiian islands and could still erupt one more time

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    Geology Quiz 2

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    other. This is where crust is destroyed or recycled. 8. C occur where two plates move apart‚ resulting in upwelling of hot material from the mantle to create new seafloor. 9. A E is a concentration of heat in the mantle capable of producing magma‚ which in turn extrudes onto Earth’s surface.

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    Katla Iceland is called the land of ice and fire. It is formed by the divergent plate boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Spanning the Mid-Atlantic Ridge‚ Iceland emerged as a result of the divergent process; the results of which‚ can be measured and observed on land. About the size of the State of Virginia‚ with a population of around 300‚000. Iceland has 30 volcanoes and 13 of them are active. The most fatal volcanic eruption of Iceland’s history was the Skaftáreldar

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