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Volcanoes
Kilauea
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What happens to temperature and pressure as you descend beneath the
Earth’s surface?
• If low pressure areas develop them the solid rock will melt and become magma– This happens when mantle material flows to
areas of lower pressure faster than the temperature can be lowered
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Volcanism
• This describes the movement of magma towards or onto the Earth’s surface– Magma is less dense than solid rock so it
pushes towards the surface through cracks and joints
– This upwelling causes more rock to heat and melt, adding to the amount of magma
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Volcanism
• Magma often forms at plate boundaries, especially in subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges and “hotspots”
• When magma breaks through the surface it is called lava
• Openings where lava erupts are vents• The accumulation of lava at the surface
around vents is called a volcano
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Subduction zones
• Where plates converge oceanic crust and ocean water are subducted and these materials move beneath the lithosphere– Results in deep ocean trenches on the ocean
floor and mountains along the edge of the continent
– The same may occur where two oceanic plates converge and one is subducted except that island arc volcanoes are created instead.
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Subduction zones
• The Pacific Ring of Fire is an example of convergent boundary volcano formation– Cascade Mountains of North America– The Aleutian Islands are an example of a
volcanic island arc
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Panoramic view of five Cascade volcanoes, looking north from Middle Sister: (from left) Belknap Crater, Mt Washington, Three Fingered Jack, Mt Jefferson, Mt Hood
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
• Where plates are diverging and new magma is rising to the surface new volcanoes care created
• Most are not noticed because they are far below the surface
• Iceland is one location where this process is easily observed– Can you think of another, older site?
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Hot Spots• Where there are weak spots in the crust,
especially over an area where convection brings a magma plume close to the surface you may find a hot spot volcano– Hawaii is one of the best examples of this
• As time goes by the plate continues to shift moving the lithospheric plate away from the hot spot and a new volcano may form– This is evident in the chain of Hawaiian islands
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Volcanic Eruptions
• There are two kinds of lava that result from different chemical combinations– These form the basis for the rock types named
after them• The type of magma can affect the type of
volcanic eruption that occurs• Silica is a main ingredient in all magmas
and determines the viscosity of the magma (and it’s ability to flow)
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Volcanic Eruptions
• Magmas high in silica form felsic lava and resist flow– These form andesitic and rhyolitic volcanoes– This also account for their lighter colour
• Magmas low in silica form mafic lava and flow more easily– These form the darker basalts often seen in
mid-ocean volcanoes or hot spots
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Rhyolite, Andesite, Basalt
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Characteristics of Magma
MaficBasaltic
IntermediateAndesitic
FelsicRhyolitic
Silica content Least (about 50%)
Intermediate (about 60%)
Most (about 70%)
Gas content Least Intermediate Most
Viscosity Least viscous Intermediate Most viscous
Type of eruption
Rarely explosive Sometimes explosive
Usually explosive
Melting temperature
Highest Intermediate Lowest
Location Rifts, oceanic hot spots
Subduction zones Continental hot spots
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Volcanic Eruptions
• Magmas also contain gases – mostly water vapour and CO2
• Basaltic or mafic magmas are very hot and thin and release gases easily, very quiet
• When they reach the surface any remaining gases usually form harmless fountains and floods
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Mafic lava
• Dark in colour• Form much of the oceanic crust
– mid-ocean ridges, oceanic hot spots• When mafic lava cools rapidly the surface
flow forms a crust– Ropey or wrinkled material is called pahoehoe– If this crust is is further deformed to make
wrinkles that break into jagged pieces it is called aa
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Pahoehoe and aa
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Hawaiian aa
Cooling aa from Mt. Etna
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Eroded cinder cone
Different colours of sand on Hawaiian all due to volcanism
Eroded basalt
Olivine
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Mafic lava
• Lava tubes form when the outer layer cools quickly but the interior remain hot and liquid and flows out of the crust leaning the tube behind it
• Lava that flows into the water cools rapidly forming pillow lava (blobs)
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South Korea Thurston Lava tube, Hawaii
Active lava tube, Kilauea
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Pillow lava
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Volcanic Eruptions
• The gases in felsic magmas can’t escape as easily and when these gases rise they expand and are propel the magma quickly to the surface, these magmas are cooler and thicker (why?)– This results in explosive eruptions of gas and
molten and solid debris called pyroclastic material
– For example – Mt. St. Helens
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Mt. St. Helen’s before May 18, 1980
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Mt. St. Helen’s after May 18, 1980
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Ash from the eruption 19 km away
Empty bus caught in the mud flow
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Lahar
Downed trees
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Felsic magmas
• Lighter colour• Forms much of the continental crust• These lavas tend to be cooler and thicker
with a high dissolved gas content• When an opening forms they tend to boil
out explosively sending out molten and solid pyroclastic material
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Pyroclastic Material
• Volcanic dust – less than 0.25 mm• Pumice – very frothy, formed by gas inclusions• Ash– less than 2 mm in diameter• Lapilli – less than 64 mm in diameter• Bombs – larger than 64 mm (fist sized)• Blocks – can be very large pieces• Note: tephra refers to materials as small as ash or
as large as bombs
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Mt. Pinatubo dust cloud
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Pumice
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Volcanic ash
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Lapilli
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Volcanic bombs
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Tephra that falls from the eruption column produces a tephra fall deposit.
Mt. Etna
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Pyroclastic Material
• Pyroclastic flow– Combination of volcanic gases and particulate
matter that forms a superheated cloud that travelers downhill very quickly (more than 100 km/h)• Pompeii was buried under pumice and ash in 79 AD
• Lahar– Pyroclastic flow mixed with snow and ice that
rapidly melts and form a fast flowing mud flow• Mt. St. Helen’s the lahar was 46 m deep
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Pyroclastic flow on the island of Monserrat
Flow of materials from the Twin Towers
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Types of Volcanoes
• Lava and pyroclastic material that build up around a vent are known as volcanic cones
• There are three main types of cones– Shield volcanoes– Cinder cones– Composite cones or stratovolcanoes
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Shield Volcanoes
• Cones that have a broad base and gently sloping sides build up from (usually) mafic flows over long periods of time– Hawaiian islands – Mauna Loa is 4170 m
above sea level and rises 5000 m from the ocean floor (total – 9170 m total)
• These tend to be less explosive but have frequent flows
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Hawaiian shield volcanoes
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Cinder Cones• Simplest type of volcano• Made from molten lava and solid material
ejected by more explosive eruptions• Tend to be smaller volcanoes
– rarely more than a few hundred meters
• Often have very steep slopes– more than 40o
• Typically from in groups and on sides of larger volcanoes– Eg. Capulin in Mexico
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Paricutin, Mexico
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Paricutin seen from the air
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Composite Cones
• Also known as stratovolcanoes due to their height– E.g. Mt. Fuji, Mt. St. Helens
• Formed by alternating layers of lava (quiet eruptions) and pyroclastic material (explosive eruptions)– Lava adds to the sides and pyroclastic material
adds around the vent
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Mt. Fuji
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Mt. St. Helen’s shortly after the eruption of May 18, 1980
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Craters and Calderas
• These form at the top of the volcano, a funnel shaped pit– Sometimes the sides of the crater erode and
sometimes block the vent allowing pressure to build behind it
– Sometimes smaller cones build inside a crater from materials erupting from the vent
– If the magma chamber empties the crater falls inwards and forms a caldera
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Craters and Calderas
• Crater Kale in Oregon is a caldera that filled with water and now has a new cone rising in it
• Krakatau (1883) is a caldera 6 km in diameter – there is a new volcano rising in the caldera now
• Yellowstone is one of the most famous caldera
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Crater Lake
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Yellowstone
• This area is still geologically active – it’s over a hot spot formed about 640 000 yrs ago
• Result of several overlapping calderas starting 2 M yrs ago measuring 55 km by 72 km
• The magma below this area generates the heat that drives the geysers and hot springs in the park
• The last eruption was about 1000 times more powerful than Mt. St. Helens
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Echinus Geyser
Mammoth hot springs
Exploding mud pot
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Predicting Eruptions
• Seismic activity• Temperature changes• Bulging on the surface• Changes in gas composition• Knowledge of previous eruptions
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Extra-terrestrial volcanism
• Moon – Maria are basaltic flows• Mars – Olympus Mons is the light known
volcano in the solar system (shield volcano)• Venus – radar evidence of thousands of
volcanoes many of which are active– May contribute to the greenhouse effect and the
high temperatures
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Radar image of Venus’ surface
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Olympus Mons, Mars
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Extra-terrestrial volcanism
• Io – a moon of Jupiter – gravitational tugs between two moons and the planet may mean surface is constantly being shifted out of shape which provides energy for volcanic acitivity
• Titan – a moon of Saturn – recent evidence of activity but the flows are of methane and other gases, not lava