Hawai'i Physical Geography_ Volcanic Landforms _ GPH 112_ Intro to Phys Geography Lab (2024 Spring)
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Hawai'i Physical Geography: Volcanic Landforms : GPH 112: Intro to Phys Geography Lab (2024 Spring)
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Hawai'i Physical Geography: Volcanic Landforms
Due
Feb 16 at 11:59pm
Points
4
Questions
2
Available
after Jan 29 at 12am
Time Limit
None
Instructions
You are welcome to watch this overview video about
this volcanic landforms lab and the connected next
lab about the creation of feral relief. The video does
not explain how to do the problems, but explains how
these different labs are connected to go from
volcanoes to wild landscapes:
The landforms on the Big Island of Hawai'i are incredibly special to physical geographers who focuses processes that generate landforms for several reasons:
The rock type is almost all the same lava (basalt) derived from ocean crust.
Related to this, the original slope of most of the Hawaiian volcano surfaces is remarkably similar, du
fluid basalt flows making the "shield volcano" (dome-like) shape for much of the island's surface.
Hawaiian basalt is one of those rock types that can be "dated". Basalt older than about 50,000 year
dated directly by measuring the decay of radioactive potassium. Basalt younger than about 40,000 y
can be dated by measuring the radioactive carbon (radiocarbon) in trees that were swallowed up (ru
by lava flows.
This is the first of a two-part lab that starts with the geomorphology of a shield volcano (like Mauna Loa
left) that then turns into the wild feral relief created by erosion of that volcanic surface (like Kauai on th
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that has only a tiny bit of the original dome shape). This lab is about the original volcano geomorpholo
next one is about creating the feral relief.
Mauna Loa - what Kauai once looked like.
Kauai - little left of the original shield volcano
VOLCANIC LANDFORMS.
This section of the lab has two questions where you:
identify the volcanic landform
(and its relief or source) in a matching question
analyze a unique attribute of one of the big 5 shield volcanoes
All the information you need is found below. But if you feel like you would like to review lecture conten
basalt volcanic landforms. You can watch slide 5 through 30 in the
GPH 111 volcano lecture
. You w
asked a logon ( gph111) and a password (gaia). If the lecture does not load, just refresh your browser.
QUESTION: The format is matching, where you select the best match between the locat
and the volcanic landform.
In this question, you are given geographic coordinates scattered aroun
Island of Hawai’i. Within the geovisualization game, you enter the coordinates in Fast Travel and go to t
location. Then, you find the best match between the location and the volcanic landform.
Your choices will be:
Below - you will find some examples of the matching you will do in the first question.
Note: If the feature has positive relief (goes up), then estimate its height using the highest elevation at the
the lowest elevation around its base. If the feature is a negative relief (depression), then measure the high
location at the edge and the lowest education at the bottom to estimate the maximum depth.
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You can see as a strip of darker material
flowing down the side of a shield
volcano. In this question, you will be
asked to find the volcano that is the
source of the lava flow. Just follow the
lava flow uphill and when you can’t see it
any more – that’s the source. It will be
one of the five big shield volcanoes seen
to the right:
Basalt Lava flow from Mauna Loa
(19.6715 -155.3718).
In this example, the avatar is in the
middle of the screenshot. Mauna Loa is
the volcano to the upper left, and the
avatar "hopped" up hill following the
basalt flow to a location high on Mauna
Loa.
Calderas
are made by collapse of a
volcano into an emptied magma
chamber. You will be asked the depth of
the caldera, that you determine by having
your avatar stand on the rim (write down
the elevation) and then jump down to the
bottom of the caldera (write down the
elevation). Just subtract the bottom
from the top.
Kilauea Caldera (19.4222, -155.2494) ~
150 meters deep
In this example, the avatar is in the
middle of the screenshot standing on the
edge of the Kilauea caldera. A caldera is
made via the collapse of the surface,
typically into a void left when lots of
magma erupts on the side of a volcano.
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Craters
are made by the force of a
volcanic eruption (or steam eruption).
Craters can also be made by some
collapse; but these craters are very
different from the super big calderas
made when the top of a volcano
collapses into a void.
Crater (19.6760, -155.8256) ~ 15
meters deep
In this crater along a volcanic slope, the
floor of the crater is roughly 15 meters
from the surface surrounding it.
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