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volcanism:any activity that includes the movement of magma toward the surface of the Earth volcano: place where magma reaches the surface What are volcanoes?
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MID-OCEAN RIDGE: occurs where plates are moving apart lava flows out smoothly and fluidly from cracks
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SUBDUCTION ZONE: occurs at subduction boundaries usually explosive and erupted material is mostly lava
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HOT SPOTS: areas of volcanic activity in the middle of a lithospheric plates
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Hawaiian Islands are an example
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What are the factors that determine the violence of the eruption? Composition of the magma Temperature of the magma Dissolved gases in the magma
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magma: liquid, molten rock underground lava: magma that reaches the surface What is magma & lava?
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Factors affecting viscosity - Temperature (hotter magmas are less viscous) - Composition (silica content) 1.High silica—high viscosity 2.Low silica—more fluid (e.g., basaltic lava) the measure of a material's resistance to flow.
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What are the two types of lava? felsic: much silica, light- colored, slow moving (continental crust)
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mafic: low silica, dark-colored, fast moving (oceanic crust)
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PahoehoeLava Aa Lava
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Pahoehoe
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Aa
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Aa
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Pillow lava from Hawaii
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many magmas contain dissolved gases that are given off water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), sulfur (S) magmas with more gases have more explosive eruptions How do gases affect magma?
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solid fragments ejected from a volcano ash (fine, glassy fragments) lapilli (walnut sized particles) blocks (hardened lava) bombs (ejected as hot lava) What is pyroclastic material?
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lapilli
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bombs
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blocks
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Vent: opening from which lava flows Crater: funnel-shaped pit or depression at top of volcano Caldera:craters whose walls have collapsed What is the anatomy of a volcano?
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What are the 3 different types of volcanoes? Shield Cinder Cone Composite
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composed of quiet lava flows form gently sloping, dome- shaped mountain basaltic (mafic) magma
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largest = Mauna Loa in Hawaii
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Made mostly of tephra and other rock particle Formed from explosive eruptions Not very high, narrow base, steep sides Grantic (felsic) magma
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built up of alternating layers of rock and lava explosive eruptions at first with tephra, then quiet with lava forms large, cone-shaped mountains made of grantic and basaltic magma
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Mount Fuji
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Mount St. Helens Before and After the May 18, 1980, Eruption
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What are Igneous Rock Structures? Intrusions – underground rock masses Extrusions – surface rock masses
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What are the different types of INTRUSIONS? 1. Batholiths –largest igneous intrusions –Form when huge bodies of magma cool underground –Cover 1000 km
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Batholith
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INTRUSIONS 2. Laccoliths –Domelike masses formed from magma bulging upward
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This laccolith in Red and White Mountain, Colorado, is of Tertiary age. Overlying layers of rock have been eroded.
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INTRUSIONS 3. Dike –Sheets of igneous rocks that cut across the rock layer
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Dike
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INTRUSIONS 4. Sill –Sheet of hardened magma that forms between and parallel to layers of rock
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Sill
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INTRUSIONS 5Stock –Similar to batholiths but less than 100 km
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What are EXTRUSIONS? 1. Volcanic neck: –The plug of hardened magma left in the vent from which lava flowed
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Volcanic neck:
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EXTRUSIONS 2. Caldera
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Aniakchak Caldera formed during an enormous explosive eruption that expelled more than 50 km 3 of magma about 3,450 years ago. The caldera is 10 km in diameter and 500-1,000 m deep.
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