Barbara is very imaginative and is known to "spice" up stories a bit, making some parts untrue.
After her trip to Hawaii, she was going to tell her mom what happened, but she really didn't do many exciting things. Barbara, being the imaginative thinker she is, came up with a scenario.
"Mom, it was so exciting! I got to see one of the volcanoes erupt, it was amazing! The lava shot a few stories into the air, I've never seen anything like it! Oh, and I was watching a river of lava too! I was only seven feet away from it!".
After her mom heard this story, she knew that a part of it wasn't true. Which part wasn't true and why?
2007-03-06 03:16:44 · 6 answers · asked by Kathy B 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
That she wasn't standing seven feet away from it. Without protective gear, it's far too hot.
2007-03-06 03:19:44 · answer #1 · answered by crzywriter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say its the standing seven feet away from the river of lava,
Cause i found this out about Volcanoes in Hawaii, Some volcanoes like this one in Hawaii can shoot a fountain of molten lava 600 feet into the air! ... of excellent information about volcanoes!
When Lava comes from the top of a Volcanoe it travels down the sides, and contains magmatic gas (mostly water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur), and this slowly passes out of the cooling lava leaving behind holes that look a lot like the ones in Swiss cheese. The holes can be angular or round, depending on whether the gas escaped during flow or after the lava stopped flowing. but it doesnt flow like a river bed.
Aa has more resistance to flow than Pahoehoe, its is stickier and there form more sluggish or slow. Instead of flowing like a river it tends to pile up at its flow front and this leads to an upper surface that is rougher than #1 grit sandpaper, an angular, clinkery surface with tall, jagged lava spikes sticking up out of it.
2007-03-06 11:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by softball Queen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. Viscous lava means these kind of explosions, however thin lava such as from the shield volcanoes in Hawaii means gentler explosions that are very runny
Great question as said before!!!
2007-03-06 13:02:11 · answer #3 · answered by ღ♥ღ latoya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Volcanos in Hawaii are not the type to erupt. They spew lava but don't erupt like in other areas. I think this is a very good question.
2007-03-06 11:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She couldn't be standing merely 7 feet away from the molten lava because 1) it wouldn't have stopped there and it would be moving fast and 2) it would be too hot to be near.
2007-03-10 02:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by Myndi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That she actually saw it was untrue. I would say she was 7 feet away from the image on television.
2007-03-06 12:31:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋