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Volcanoes
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Volcano Making Kit
Volcano Making Kit




BOOKS ABOUT VOLCANOES

Volcanoes! (National Geographic Readers)
Volcanoes! (National Geographic Readers)


Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park
Super Volcano:
The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park


Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis (Teach Yourself)
Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis
(Teach Yourself)




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Volcanoes Educational Posters, Charts & Maps
for the science classroom and home schoolers.


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Volcano Chart
Volcano Chart

Global Volcanism
WOVO
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Pahoehoe Lava Flow from the Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA, Photographic Print
Pahoehoe is an Hawaiian word descibing a basaltic lava flow with a smooth, billowy, undulating or ropy surface.

Volcanoes are openings in a planet's surface where hot, molten (melted) rock, ash and gas escape from below the surface. Most volcanoes occur along subduction zones where ocean plates collide and dive beneath the continental plates.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean and as the ocean plates are colliding with the continental plates.

The word ‘volcano’ comes from the Ancient Romans who named the violent and destructive events and resulting mountains after their fire god Vulcan. Vulcanology is the study of volcanoes, and vulcanologists are the scientists that study volcanoes.

The Greek philosopher Empedocles, who described the world as being divided into four elemental forces of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, maintained that volcanoes were the manifestation of Elemental Fire. BTW- legend has it that Empedocles threw himself into Mt. Etna.

Super eruptions locations include Lake Taupo (NZ), Lake Toba and Tambora (Indonesia), Yellowstone (WY), La Garita Caldera (CO), and Valles Caldera (NM).

The Decades Volcano* project lists sixteen volcanoes as worthy of close watching because of their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas.





A

Mount Ampato
Arakao
Ararat
Ardoukoba
Arenal
Aso
Atitlán
Augustine
Azuma Ko-Fuji

B

Ball's Pyramid
Gunung Batur
Bezymianny
Bromo

C

Cayambe
Chachani
Chaitén
Chimborazo
Mount Cleveland
*Colima
Coliseum Maar
Concepción
Cotopaxi
Crater Lake Caldera

D

Daisetsuzan
Dallol
Deccan Traps
Devils Tower
Dukono

E

Mt. Egmont/Taranaki
Eldfell
Erebus
Erta Ale
*Etna
Eyjafjallajokull

F-G

Fernandina Caldera
Pico do Fogo
Mount Fuji

*Galeras
Mount Gambier
Giant's Causeway
Golovnino
Guagua Pichincha




H-I-J

Haleakala
Hekla
Mt. Hood

Ibu
Illiamna
Iztaccihuatl

K

Kamchatkas
Gorely
Kamen
Klyuchevskoy
*Koryaksky
Krasheninnikov
Kronotski
Katmai
Kilauea
Mauna Ulu
Kilimanjaro
Kimanura
Krakatau

L

Laki
Lassen Volcanic Nat'l Park
Licancabur
Llaima
Llullaillaco

M

Maat Mons
Maderas
Mammoth Mountain
Masaya
Mayon
*Mauna Loa
Medicine Lake (Lava Beds)
*Merapi
El Misti (aka Guagua-Putina)

N-O

Novarupta
Mt. Ngauruhoe
Nyamuragira &
*Nyiragongo (Virunga)

Okmok
Ol Doinyo Lengai
Ollague
Olympus Mons
Osorno

P

Pacaya
Papandayan
Paracutin
Parinacota
Nevados de Payachata

Pelée
Pico
Pichincha
Mount Pinatubo
Pitons
Pinton de la Fournaise

Poas
Polloquere
Popocatépetl
Pululahua
Puu Oo




Q-R

*Rainier
Rano Kau
Redoubt
Rincon
Rinjani
Ruapehu

S

*Sakurajima
Sajama
St. Helens
Sangay
*Santa Maria/Santiaguito
*Santorini

Semeru
Shasta
Shiprock
Shishaldin
Shiveluch
Siau (Karangetang)

Snæfellsjökull
Soufriere Hills
Stromboli
Sunset Crater

T

*Taal
Tambora
Tarawera
*El Teide
Toba
Tongarino
Tungurahua
Turbaco

U-V

*Ulawun
*Uzon

Valles Caldera
*Vesuvius
Villarrica

W-X-Y-Z

Waw an Namus
Wrangell Volcanic Field

Yasur
Yellowstone


Volcanoes, Earth Processes Poster
Volcanoes, Earth Processes Poster

Volcanoes

Deep inside the Earth, heat and pressure cause solid rock to melt into a liquid known as magma. In some areas around the globe this magma has risen to the surface and erupted, creating volcanoes. Volcanoes are generaly classified into three types: Shield Volcanoes, Composite Cone Volcanoes and Cinder Cones.

Shield volcanoes are broad, domed mountains formed from highly liquid magma flowing and cooling slowly to form rock. As one eruption cools another eruption flows over it, building layers of cooled lava flows. These volcanoes erupt primarily liquid magma, or lava, as it is called once it reaches the Earth's surface.

Composite cone volcanoes are more explosive in nature. The lava fragments are cooled in the air, forming pyroclastic material. The next eruption might be more liquid, thus it has alternating layers of pyroclastic material and lava flows. This type of volcano has much steeper sides.

Cinder cones are primarily built up with pyroclastic material around a central vent. This is common in larger volcanoes.


Geosphere: Rock Cycle Poster
Geosphere:
Rock Cycle Poster

Geosphere: Rock Cycle

Poster Text: In the rock cycle, rock is neither created nor destroyed, but is continually recycled. Rock changes both physically and chemically, and is redistributed and transformed. Under the crust of the Earth is a circulating layer of liquid molten rock known as magma. When magma cools and solifies underground or above ground it becomes igneous rock. ... Some rock becomes magma again through tectonic areas known as subduction zones. It is at these zones that one tectonic plate is pushed down under another. ...

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