Volcanoes

Volcanoes are fascinating things that get stereotyped. Many people think of volcanoes are a destruction to Earth. In reality they help the Earth in many ways. Volcanoes enrich soil, creates jobs, and form beautiful scenery. Over 10,000 years ago a humongous volcano erupted in Naples, Italy. The debri and ash from the volcano has enrich or improved the soil. This soil has gained nutrition and other minerals making the soil great for plant growth. The crops there have been intensely growing for over

tall. Geologists say that Mount St. (Saint) Helens is a stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano. Stratovolcano is a volcano that is built upward because of layers of hardened volcanic ash, lava, and other volcanic debris. These kinds of volcanoes are distinguished by their steep sides. They often erupt extremely explosively, putting people and properties nearby at risk. The present-day name, Mount Saint Helens, was received in 1792 by a man named George Vancouver. He was captain of the British

Yes people think that volcanoes are very scary and destroy a lot of things, but are volcanoes really as bad was we think there are? Yes they can hurt City’s but there are a wonderful help to. The volcanic eruptions make it way easier to grow plants and crops in the poor soil lands in these places .At times volcanoes can and are very dangerous to people and the environment but these scary lava shooting mountains are something that can help us live . The volcanos are what helps the growing land in

km2 piece of land is the house of imposing volcanoes, amazing beaches, and a refuge for birds. Across the country, Costa Rica has five active volcanoes, it has more than one hundred fifty beaches, and more than nine hundred species of birds. The twenty five percent of Costa Rica are protected areas, this allows visitors to have a better experience in contact with nature. The following paragraphs are a compilation of relevant aspects about the volcanoes, beaches, and birds of Costa Rica. Costa Rica

Volcanoes and Earthquakes are Sisters, Not Twins Volcanoes and Earthquakes are two of the most intriguing natural disasters that can occur on earth. Unlike hurricanes and tornadoes, they can awaken at almost any point in time throughout the year. These two natural disasters are also different from others because they occur on the layers of the earth itself. Volcanoes, while large to us, are actually small, conical patches of earth that spurt and ooze hot molten lava from the core, and can destroy

witnesses to document the actual blast. It wasn’t until Mt. St. Helens that it was recognized that the two blasts were the same style of eruption. ● These “sector collapse” (the name of this type of eruption) have now been identified at over 200 volcanoes around the world. The detailed studies of the sector collapse, the lateral blast, and the large mudflow of this eruption have led to the reassessment of volcano hazards at other sites around the world. This has given these communities a way to become

I decided for my project that I would spend the time researching Mount Baker. Mount Baker is located about 30 miles east of Bellingham, Washington. The Cascade Mountain range extends over 140 miles between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada. Mount Baker is a Stratovolcano, which is also known as a composite volcano, it is also the highest peak in the North Cascades and the fifth highest in the Cascade mountain range (Volcano Hazards Programs). Cities located near Mount Baker include Abbotsford

Juan de Fuca Plate. This is a divergent boundary. It was formed by the subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate. This volcano also has lahars which are large mudflows that happen in the deposits of sediments that surrounds volcanoes; they can be hot or cold. This volcano includes but not limited to the rock andesite. Isla Fernandina Isla Fernandina is volcano that is in the Galápagos’

home to the world’s most active volcanoes. Hawaii is unique because the islands are caused 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

The media has engendered the critical opprobrium of volcanoes with their triumphant essays at delineating volcanic eruptions so as to give the impression that they are devastating and precarious. As a result, the negative stigma encompassing volcanoes and their concomitants permeates all walks of life. Under the nourishment of ignorance and fear, which are constituents of the human condition, antipathy multiplies. Ergo, Homo sapiens, possessing complex cognitive neural processes, are predisposed