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2006-08-28 00:29:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Geography

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volcanoes erupt now and then.

2006-08-28 00:34:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

A volcano is a geological landform usually generated by the eruption through a vent in a planet's surface of magma, molten rock welling up from the planet's interior. Volcanoes of various types are found on other planets and their moons as well as on Earth. Roughly defined, a volcano consists of a magma chamber, pipes and vents. The magma chamber is where magma from deep within the planet pools, while pipes are channels that lead to surface vents, openings in the volcano's surface through which lava is ejected during an eruption.

Though the common perception of a volcano as a mountain spewing lava and poisonous gases from a crater in its top is not wrong per se, the features of volcanoes are much more complicated and vary from volcano to volcano depending on a number of factors. Some volcanoes even have rugged peaks formed by lava domes rather than a summit crater, whereas others present landscape features such as massive plateaus. Vents that issue volcanic material (lava, which is what magma is called once it has broken the surface, and ash) and gases (mainly steam and magmatic gases) can be located anywhere on the landform. Many of these vents give rise to smaller cones such as Puʻu ʻŌʻō on a flank of Hawaiʻi's Kīlauea.

Other types of volcanoes include cryovolcanos (or ice volcanoes), particularly on some moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune; and mud volcanoes, which are formations often not associated with known magmatic activity. Active mud volcanoes tend to involve temperatures much lower than those of igneous volcanoes, except when a mud volcano is actually a vent of an igneous volcano. On Earth, volcanoes tend to occur near the boundaries of crustal plates. Important exceptions exist in hotspot volcanoes, which occur at locations far from plate boundaries; hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on its rocky planets and moons.

A popular way of classifying magmatic volcanoes goes by their frequency of eruption, with those that erupt regularly called active, those that have erupted in historical times but are now quiet called dormant, and those that have not erupted in historical times called extinct. However, these popular classifications—extinct in particular—are practically meaningless to scientists. More significant ones refer to a particular volcano's formative and eruptive processes and resulting shapes; these and other details are explained below. Volcano is thought to derive from Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Aeolian Islands of Italy whose name in turn originates from Vulcan, the name of a god of fire in Roman mythology. The study of volcanoes is called volcanology, sometimes spelled vulcanology.

The Roman name for the island Vulcano has contributed the word for volcano in most modern European languages.


Good luck.

2006-08-28 07:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anry 7 · 0 0

when earth turn on and get super excited it *** lots of fire and melton rocks called volcano

2006-08-28 17:43:41 · answer #3 · answered by source_of_love_69 3 · 0 0

Yes.

2006-08-28 13:41:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes, can you be more specific?

2006-08-31 00:58:07 · answer #5 · answered by Joe H 2 · 0 0

go to this site you may found something interesting about volcano:
www.volcano.si.edu/

2006-08-28 10:12:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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