Lecture 4 - Volcano Flashcards

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A conical hill or mountain built around a vent that connects with reservoirs of moltem rock below the earth surface

The window of geologist to the inner part of the earth

A

Volcano

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Molten rocks below the surface of the earth

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magma

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magma that reaches the earths surface

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lava

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why do volcanoes erupt?

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due to decompression
Magma is lighter than the solid rock around it

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what are the pyroclastic debris

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Blocks, Bomb, Pumice, Cinder, Lapilli, Ash, Dust

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Pieces with 1-4 mm in diameter

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Dust

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Fragments consisting of sharply angular glass particles, smaller than cinder

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Ash

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Small, Slag-like, solidified pieces of magma 0.5 to 2,5 cm across

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cinder

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peieces 2 to 64 mm in diameter; latin for little stones

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Lapilli

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Coarse, angular pieces of the cone or broken away from rocks that block the vent (>64 mm in diameter)

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blocks

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rounded masses that congeal from magma as it travel through air

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bombs

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pieces of magma up to several centimeters across that have trapped bubbles of steam of other gases as they are thrown out

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pumice

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13
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What are the type of volcanoes

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cinder, composite, shield, lava

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simplest type of volcano, consist almost entirely of loose, grainy cinders and almost no lava
most have bowl-shaped crater at the summit

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cinder volcano

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consist of layers of solid lava flows mixed with layers of san or gravel like cinder or volcanic ash, moderately steep-sided and has symmetrical cone with small cater

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composite

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16
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built almost entirely or fluid lava flows through slow accretion of basaltic lava

almost entirely of solidified lavas and always has a large crater at the summit

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shield volcano

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formed by relatively small, bulbous masses of lava too viscous to flow to great distance

commonly found within the craters of on the flanks of large composite volcanoes

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type of volcanic eruption

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Hawaiian, Strombolian, Vulcanian, Krakatoan, Pelean, Phreatic

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may occur along fissures of fractures of crustal blocks that serves as linear vents or at central vent

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ash is scarce and most ejecta are party fluid upon landing, fragmental ejecta, likebombs and scoria, normally precede discharge of lava

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quiet involving basaltic or andesitic magma of moderate fluidity

explosive discharge includes incandescent scroia bomb and vitric ash

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lava fountain are small and exceptional, explosion clouds seldom reach 500 m

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involves any type of magmka from basaltic to rhyolitic
eruption begins with phereatic type

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exhibited by mt mayon in its 2001 eruption

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karakotoan
volcano may collapse to form caldera
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also called as glowing cloud, glowing avalanches of fresh and effervescing magmas are produced
pelean
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explosive discharge of expanding stream resulting from ground or surface water coming into contact
phreatic
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swelling of the volcano
deformation
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what instrument use on swelling volcano
tiltmeter
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how many volcanoes are there in the philippines
300 volcanoes in 5 volcanic belts 22 active 27 potentially active 281 inactive
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