volcanism the study of volcanoes and their activities
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Volcanism
The study of volcanoes
and their activities
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5/18/80 - Before
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“Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!”
During
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May 18, 1980
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July 22, 1980
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After
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The Lahar
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Cascade Volcanic Peaks
Adams
Lassen
Hood
Baker
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Rainier
ShastaShuksan
St. Helens
A picturesque, cone-shaped structure that periodically erupts violently!
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Are all eruptions explosive?
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Why the difference?• Temperature – hotter
is less viscous• Composition – the
more silica, the more viscous
• Dissolved gases – gases increase fluidity and decrease viscosity
• Viscosity increases explosiveness
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Materials extruded from volcanoes
• Lava – pahoehoe (ropy), aa (blocky) and pillow lava (water cooled rolling formation)
• Gases – 1-6% of the mass (water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur, chlorine, hydrogen, argon, and methane)
• Pyroclastics – ejected fragments
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Pahoehoe
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A’a
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Pyroclastic flow
A pyroclastic flow is a ground-hugging avalanche of hot ash, pumice, rock fragments, and
volcanic gas that rushes down the side of a volcano as fast as 100
km/hour or more. The temperature within a pyroclastic flow may be greater than 500° C, sufficient to
burn and carbonize wood.
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Pyroclastics
• Ash and dust
• Cinders
• Lapilli (little stones)
• Pumice (frothy lava)
• Blocks (large rocks)
• Bombs (blobs of lava)
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Volcanic Cones
• Successive eruptions from a central vent result in a mountain-like accumulation of material called a volcano (cone)
• Let’s look at shield, cinder, and composite cone types!
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This type of volcano can be hundreds of miles across and many tens of thousands of feet high. The individual islands of the state of Hawaii are simply large shield volcanoes.
Mauna Loa, a shield volcano on the "big" island of Hawaii, is the largest single
mountain in the world, rising over 30,000 feet above the ocean floor and reaching
almost 100 miles across at its base. Shield volcanoes have low slopes and consist
almost entirely of frozen lavas. They almost always have large craters at their summits.
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Shield cone
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Mauna Loa
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As you might expect from the name, these volcanoes consist almost entirely of loose,
grainy cinders and almost no lava. They are small volcanoes, usually only about a mile
across and up to about a thousand feet high. They have very steep sides and
usually have a small crater on top.
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Cinder Cone
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These volcanoes are typically tens of miles across and ten thousand or more feet in height. As illustrated in the figure above, they have moderately steep sides and sometimes have small craters in their
summits. Volcanologists call these "strato-" or composite volcanoes because they
consist of layers of solid lava flows mixed with layers of sand- or gravel-like volcanic
rock called cinders or volcanic ash.
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Composite Cone
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Volcanic Hazards
• Explosion – Krakatoa
• Burial – Vesuvius (Pompeii)
• Nuee ardente – Pelee (St. Pierre)
• Lahar – Mt. St. Helens & Nevado del Ruiz
• Lava flow - Kilauea
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Krakatoa before and after
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Vesuvius and Pompeii
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St. Pierre?
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Poisonous Gases
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Kilauea
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Other Volcanic Landforms
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Caldera
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Volcanic dome
• Viscous magma• Usually in
association with existing cones
• Some independent, like Mono Craters CA
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Volcanic neck
• Vent materials more resistant
• Flanks wear away• “neck” left behind
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Vents and pipes
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Fissure flows
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Columbia Flood Basalts
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Pyroclastic flows
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Distribution of Igneous Activity
• Zones of divergence (seafloor spreading)
• Zones of convergence (subduction)
• Therefore, crustal plate margins
• Hot spots (intraplate volcanism)
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