I am from Sicily, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, and also in the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Europa and Africa plate boundary. It links the African Maghreb ides with the Southern Apennines across Calabria, Italy. In Sicily you can find the highest and most active volcano of Europe, Mount Etna, Catania. Its elevation is 3.330 m. (10,925 ft.), it’s a Stratovolcano, which means that its volcanic cone is formed by layers of lava flows and pyroclastic, or composite cone. Geologist are still studying Mount Etna plate tectonic setting to explain its location and eruption. In the picture it shows how Mount Etna is situated above a subduction zone where the Eurasian and African plates collide. You can also see a torn part of the African subduction
It is believed that this volcanic area was caused by a localised hot spot within the Pacific plate. A concentration of radioactive elements inside of the mantle may have caused this hot spot to develop. The hot spot is stationary so as the Pacific plate moves over it a line of volcanoes are made. This is more proof that the Earth’s crust is moving as suggested by Wegener.
I: The objective of this lab was to understand how plate boundaries work. We were to find the major plates and compare and contrast them.
In the South of Italy, you can find three active volcanoes: Vesuvius, which is near Naples, Etna on Sicily, and Stromboli which is off the Coast of Italy.
Volcanoes can be found throughout the entire world and are formed when there is a rupture in the mantle of the Earth's crust. This effect allows the output of volcanic lava, ash, and various types of gases. These tectonic plate breaks are normal, the planet Earth is divided into 17 tectonic plates and consistently move against each other forming shifts from low to high intensity. It can cause displacement of earth or water.
Mt. Rainer is located in Washington, US on the North American Continent. More specifically it can be found at 46.8523° N, 121.7603° W. Ashford is the closest city to Mt. Rainer. Mt. Rainer was formed by the Juan de Fuca plate and the North American Plate. This plate boundary is convergent in nature, the Juan de Fuca plate is submerged beneath the North American Plate. Mt. Rainer is a stratovolcano, they are characterized by periodically active composite volcanoes. Mt. Rainers lava has alternated between explosive and nonexplosive lava over the past million years. The lava is andesite and dacite lava. Its eruptions are explosive and nonexplosive. At one point in the past it had an explosive eruption that blew off the top of the peak. No ash is shot out of the volcano at the time of eruptions,
Plate tectonics are very dangerous when they collide,slide,and move apart. They can create mountains like the Appalachian Mountains that used to tower over everything then erosion took place. The Appalachian Mountains were formed by convergent boundaries, convergent boundaries are collide
The Earth’s outer crust is made up many tectonic plates that move over the surface of the planet. When the plates come collide, volcanoes will form sometime (National Ocean Service). Volcanoes can also form in the middle of a plate, where magma rises upward until it erupts on the sea floor, at what is called a “hot spot” (National Ocean Service). A hot spot is a plume of magma or molten rock that rises from within the Earth then reaches the surface forming underwater volcanoes which may grow tall enough to
Mount St Helens erupted on the 18th May 1980 at 9am and is an active strata volcano Washington State USA, a MEDC. Where as on 18th July 1995, during the daytime, Montserrat, a LEDC during the day, Montserrat's Soufrière Hills composite volcano of a height 1050m, meaning sulphur hills, dormant for centuries, erupted and produced a phreatic eruption. The volcano is a strata volcano also. Mount St. Helens is a composite volcano which lies near to a destructive plate boundary where the small Juan de Fuca Plate is being subducted underneath the North American Plate where as the eruption
About 7,700 years ago, Mount Mazama erupted on itself after building upon itself and reaching an impressive height of 12,000 feet. The aftermath of the collapse left a crater more than 2000 feet deep and 6 miles wide (Reichmann)! The rocks and minerals from the Mount Mazama
Scientist believe they have found the cause of Novarupta recently. The Katamai volcanoes, which Novarupta is a part of, are situated in a subduction zone. That is, essentially, an area where one tectonic plate moves below another
When they found pompeii they did not care anything about it and they started rebuilding pompeii . Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano on mainland Europe. It is best known because of the eruption in A.D. 79. destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ( Pompeii 1). ... Vesuvius and other Italian volcanoes, such as Campi Flegrei and
Mount saint luna- This landform is a volcano and is located south of one of the cities called ecli. The people of Ecli thought it was a second mountain. They didn’t think one minute ahead once the volcano erupted.
Furthermore, Mount Vesuvius is rich in history and detail to be and learned from the age of the volcano to the types of rocks that can be found around and inside the walls of the volcano. Mount Vesuvius is a volcano located in near one of Italy’s largest Naples overlooking the bay. It is the only active volcano in Europe at this time that has produced a series of eruptions before the infamous eruption in 79A.D. to its last eruption in 1944.
Mount Vesuvius is a volcano close to the Bay of Naples in Italy. This volcano is classed as a stratovolcano, this is because its eruptions usually involve explosive eruptions and pyroclastic flows. It has erupted more than 50 times. Mount Vesuvius is most famous for its eruption that took place in the year 79 A.D. This eruption was the destruction of Pompeii and other surrounding cities, like Herculaneum. This eruption had buried the ancient roman city, known as Pompeii under a blanket of volcanic ash.
When collisions between plates occur, the crust is pushed up sometimes forming ranges of mountains. This is the way that most