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Volcanoes

Volcanoes. Ch 8. Bill Nye Volcano Video. What is a Volcano?. A volcano is a weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface Magma reaching the surface is called lava. Location of Volcanoes. 600 active volcanoes worldwide Many more are found beneath oceans

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Volcanoes

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  1. Volcanoes Ch 8

  2. Bill Nye VolcanoVideo

  3. What is a Volcano? • A volcano is a weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma, comes to the surface • Magma reaching the surface is called lava

  4. Location of Volcanoes • 600 active volcanoes worldwide • Many more are found beneath oceans • Most occur in belts that extend across continents and oceans

  5. Burning Ring of Fire • A major belt is the “Ring of Fire” which encircles the Pacific Ocean

  6. Most volcanoes occur along diverging plate boundaries such as the mid-ocean ridge, or in subduction zones, around edges of oceans

  7. “Hot Spot” volcanoes form where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust like a blow torch • Examples: • Hawaiian Islands • Yellowstone National Park

  8. Hawaiian Hot spots Video

  9. Inside a Volcano • All volcanoes have a pocket of magma beneath the surface and one or more cracks through which magma forces its way through • Magma pocket is called a magma chamber

  10. A pipe is a long tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to the earth’s surface • Molten rock and gas leave the volcano through an opening called a vent

  11. A lava flow is the area covered by lava as it pours out of a vent • A crater is a bowl-shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano around the central vent

  12. Types of Volcanic Eruptions • The silica content of magma helps to determine whether the volcanic eruption is quiet or explosive • Silica is the material formed from the elements silicon and oxygen

  13. Silica is one of the most abundant materials in Earth’s crust and mantle • The more silica that magma contains, the thicker it is

  14. Quiet Eruptions: • Magma flows easily; the gas dissolved in the magma bubbles out gently • Creates island arcs which are a chain of volcanic islands • Examples: • Hawaii • Iceland

  15. Produce two types of lava: • Pahoehoe - fast moving, hot lava; Surface looks like a solid mass of wrinkles, billows, and rope-like coils

  16. Aa - cooler, slower-moving lava; when hardens, forms a rough surface consisting of jagged lava chunks. • Mafic- rich in magnesium and iron; this is the kind of lava flows out of oceanic volcanoes.

  17. Explosive Eruptions: • Magma is thick and sticky • Magma slowly builds up in the volcanoes’ pipe Dissolved gases cannot escape • Trapped gasses build up pressure until they explode

  18. A pyroclastic flow occurs when an explosive eruption hurls out ash, cinder, bombs, and gasses Another name for this kind of lava is called tephra.

  19. Stages of a Volcano • Active - is erupting, or has shown signs that it may erupt in the near future • Dormant - does not show signs of erupting in the neat future • Extinct - unlikely to erupt

  20. Types of Volcanoes • Shield Volcano: • Thin layers of lava pour out of a vent and harden on top of previous layers • Example: Hawaiian Islands

  21. Cinder Cone Volcano: • Form when cinders from a vent, pile up around the vent, forming a steep- cone-shaped mountain

  22. Composite Volcano • Layers of lava alternate with layers of ash, cinders, and bombs

  23. Types of volcano music video

  24. 1. FYI-SuperVolcanovideo2. Super volcano simulated eruption video

  25. Related Volcanic Activities • Hot Spring - groundwater heated by a nearby body of magma rises to the surface and collects in a natural pool

  26. Geyser - forms when rising hot water and steam become trapped underground in a narrow crack • Pressure builds until the mixture suddenly sprays upward, clearing the crack

  27. Related Volcanic Landforms • Caldera: • A large hole at the top of a volcano formed when the roof of a volcano’s magma chamber collapses

  28. Formation of a Caldera

  29. Dike: • A slab of volcanic rock formed when magma forces itself across rock layers • vertical rock formation

  30. Sill:A slab of volcanic rock formed when magma squeezes between layers of rock(horizontal rock formation)

  31. sill

  32. Batholith:A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cooled inside the crust

  33. Dome Mountains:Rising magma within the crust is blocked by layers of rock Magma forces layers of rock to bend upward into a dome shape Example: Black Hills

  34. Dome Mountains

  35. Watching Activity • Seismometer – is an instrument that detects Earth’s movements. These movements tell if the volcano is about to blow its top. • Tiltmeter- measures any change in the slope of an are. This can tell if the land is bulging and ready to blow.

  36. Volcanologists Scientists that study volcanoes

  37. Mount Vesuvius Erupted in AD79 near the city of Pompeii, Italy

  38. Trapped in Time The volcano eruption was deadly Lava, ash, hot gases poured out of the volcano The ashes covered everything For hundreds of years the city remained buried under the ash

  39. Volcanic Rock • Obsidian • Pumice

  40. Pompeii –Last Day http://www.smm.org/pompeii/video/?size=medium

  41. Erupts Volcano Magma Lava vent Cinder cone Shield cone Composite cone Volcanologists Island arc Seismometer Tiltmeter Hot spot Calderas Magma chamber Pipe Lava flow crater Vocabulary:

  42. Questions : • What are volcanoes? • How are they formed? • What are the types of volcanoes? • How do volcanoes change the Earth’s surface? • Stages of a volcano? • What is the ring of fire? • What are the differences between quiet eruptions and explosive eruptions? • What are the volcanic related landforms?

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