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EES 202 - Geological processes powerpoint
EES 202 - Geological processes powerpoint

... • Or, the magma comes out of the Earth through a Volcano and cools and solidifies. • It will cool fast if it comes out (extrusive) and will have small or no crystals, eg, Basalt. • Slow cooling inside the crust (intrusive) will produce larger crystals, eg, granite. ...
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... Mantle Plumes: There are many places on Earth where magma from deep in the mantle comes either to or almost to the surface at locations that are not anywhere near a plate boundary; these leaky spots in the interior of a plate are referred to as mantle plumes or hot spots. They are believed to be rel ...
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... • Draw an arrow under the plate name indicating the direction it is moving • Show the variations in thickness of the oceanic and continental crust. • Show were melting is occurring at depth and connect this melting to volcanoes or volcanic vents at the surface using an arrow from the melting area to ...
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... repeatedly broken as a flow continues to move even when it is cool and viscous. These surface textures will commonly change from ropy to blocky as lava moves away from its source, cools, and loses volatiles. For example, compare the texture of the Devil’s Homestead Andesite at the overlook (far from ...
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... ended with the ejection of scoria crust bombs (specific basaltic bombs with dense core and scoriaceous crust). Juvenile pyroclasts comprise 95% of the eruption deposits. These are poorly to moderately vesicular basaltic particles (SiO2 52-53%; vesicularity 7-63%, mean 34%) shaped by a combination of ...
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... episodes. Note that:ƒ There is an increase in tilt prior to each eruption ƒ The tilt rapidly declines after the eruption ƒ There is an increase in the number of tectonic earthquakes prior to the eruption. ƒ During the eruption there are volcanic earthquakes. ...
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... are the deepest parts of the ocean, and the lowest points on Earth, reaching depths of nearly 7 mi (10 km) below sea level. These long, narrow, curving depressions can be thousands of miles in length, yet as little as 5 mi (8 km) in width. Deep-sea trenches are part of a system of tectonic processes ...
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... Also, water is mixed in with the sediments lying on top of the subducting plate. This water lowers the melting point of the mantle material, which increases melting. Volcanoes at convergent plate boundaries are found all along the Pacific Ocean basin, primarily at the edges of the Pacific, Cocos, an ...
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... When two oceanic plates collide, one runs over the other which causes it to sink into the mantle forming a subduction zone. The subducting plate is bent downward to form a very deep depression in the ocean floor called a trench. The worlds deepest parts of the ocean are found along trenches.  E.g. ...
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... Volcanism and Plate Tectonics 4. On land form basalt plateaus a. East Africa Rift System b. Columbia Plateau of Washington, Oregon and Idaho B. Subduction Eruptions 1. Result of magma that forms at subduction boundaries 2. Usually explosive, mostly lava fragments 3. Most of world’s active volcanoes ...
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Volcanoes of the Rio Grande Rift - New Mexico Bureau of Geology

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... behaves like a soda drink when you unscrew the bottle cap. The volatiles contained in the magma form gas bubbles which expand due to the pressure drop. Decreasing the amount of volatiles dissolved in the magma make it also more viscous. A volatile-rich, highly viscous magma is likely to give rise t ...
Hot Rock
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... plates meet under the ocean or on land. As the two plates separate, the mantle rock from the asthenosphere layer below flows up into the void between the plates. Because the pressure is not as great at this level, the mantle rock will melt, forming magma. As the magma flows out, it cools, hardening ...
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...  Magma is molten (melted) rock beneath Earth’s surface. It forms in areas where plates ____________________ against each other or pull away from each other.  Lava is molten rock (magma) that has reached Earth’s surface  A volcano is a _____________________ made of lava, ash, or other materials fr ...
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Volcano



A volcano is a rupture on the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle. Therefore, on Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. For example, a mid-oceanic ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's interior plates, e.g., in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande Rift in North America. This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of ""plate hypothesis"" volcanism. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes. These so-called ""hotspots"", for example Hawaii, are postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs with magma from the core–mantle boundary, 3,000 km deep in the Earth. Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another.Erupting volcanoes can pose many hazards, not only in the immediate vicinity of the eruption. One such hazard is that volcanic ash can be a threat to aircraft, in particular those with jet engines where ash particles can be melted by the high operating temperature; the melted particles then adhere to the turbine blades and alter their shape, disrupting the operation of the turbine. Large eruptions can affect temperature as ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscure the sun and cool the Earth's lower atmosphere (or troposphere); however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the upper atmosphere (or stratosphere). Historically, so-called volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines.
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