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credits By Laura Henderson 2015 Index: 1) Introduction 2) Surface feature – Geographic location of Mount Ruapehu 3) Surface feature – Volcano shape 4) Surface feature – Ash deposits 5) Surface feature – Crater lake and lahars 6) Surface feature – Hot springs 7) Surface feature – Vegetation 8) Surface feature - Glaciers 9) Surface feature - Erosion 10) Conclusion 11) Bibliography   1) Introduction Mount Ruapehu is an active volcano in the centre of New Zealand’s North Island. A variety of internal

Mt. Etna erupted on the 3rd of December, 2015. Sicilians were not damaged by this explosion of magma and rock. However, many scientists are bamboozled by where the magma comes from, with many theories. Mt. Etna is one of the most active volcanoes and its most recent eruption was a violent but unharming one. Early in the morning of December 3rd, 2015, Mount Etna erupted. The eruption was short but powerful. People on the island of Sicily woke up to see magma shooting out of the top of the volcano

Plate tectonics can cause a big impact on humans and could possibly shift its course and our knowledge of the past. This quarter we have been studied plate tonics in the quarter. Pompeii was a city that was affected by plate tonics, its movement caused a massive eruption with terrible consequences. The earth is a massive sphere composed of different layers. The layers above the surface are gas, the surface is liquid and solid, but deep below it’s a dense liquid that moves around. The liquids inside

by a ‘hot spot’ in the middle of the Pacific Plate, one of the largest crustal plates on earth. There are only a few ‘hot spots’ on earth and they occur in an area where the plate is thin and weak creating volcanism, where molten magma ruptures the earth’s crust. For Hawaii, the ‘hot spot’ is under the sea floor, it creates under sea volcanoes. Over millions of years these volcanoes build up to sea level and become islands. As for Hawaii, the Pacific Plate has moved northwest across this ‘hot spot’

Most people know that Earth is the planet they live on, it’s basic knowledge. They also know that the earth has volcanoes, mountains, earthquakes, etcetera. Do they know though how these features were made? Do they know what is inside of the earth? Most likely, unless related to their job they do not. However, just because someone may not know about it, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening, and all of the earth’s layers working in harmony is definitely happening. Earth is in fact an intricate planet

living on earth we all faced to a natural disaster of some sort. Earth is compounded of huge blocks, or tectonic plates, that constantly move and slide past one another. These plates enhance energy as they move, known as boundaries, generating a fault plane. When plates slide away from each other, the stress and heat from the earth 's core can strength magma up through the gaps. When plates bump, they can produce the strong impact that causes pieces of the Earth 's crust to crash inbound. The caved-in

lithosphere plate, though this is much less common than magma production around plate boundaries. This interplate volcanic activity is caused by unusually hot mantle material forming in the lower mantle and pushing up into the upper mantle. The mantle material, which forms a plume shape that is from 500 to 1000 km wide, wells up to create a hot spot under a particular point on the earth. Because of the unusual heat of this mantle material, it melts, forming magma just under the earth's crust. The hot spot

the subterranean world works. Imagine the Earth’s layers as a hard-boiled egg: in the very center you have the inner core, which is like the yolk. Lying roughly 6400 km below the surface, the inner core is composed of iron and nickel. It’s extremely hot and dense, so much so that it takes up roughly 1/3 of the Earth’s mass(Earth 's Interior). Next we have the metaphorical egg whites— the outer core and the mantle. The outer core

is at oceanic to oceanic constructive plate boundaries. Here two plates diverge or move away from each other, pushed apart by huge convection currents In the earth’s mantle. These convection currents are initiated by heat energy produced from radioactive decay in the earth’s core. As the convection currents move the plates away from each other, there is a weaker zone in the crust and an

A handful of scientist predicted that there were some “hot spots” in the ocean floor where tectonic plates met. These “hot spots” where in the very bottom of the earth’s crust. Every time these huge tectonic plates would shift, magma would spew out. However no one had ever seen these hot spots before 1977. So in 1975 French and American scientist submarine dived into the Mid-Atlantic ridge to find these “hot spot”. Unfortunately none were found. Two years later French and American scientist sponsored