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    The Mauna Loa Volcano

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    This makes the volcano’s summit about 17 km (56‚000 ft) above its base! The enormous volcano covers half of the Island of Hawaii and by itself amounts to about 85 percent of all the other Hawaiian Islands combined. Now let’s get to finding out about lava. Although‚ it is a little terrifying having an active volcano next to a big city like Hilo Hawaii‚ it also brings in money for the city. According to wikipedia “Hilo is the county seat of the County of Hawaii and

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    scoria volcanoes‚ marr volcanoes‚ composite volcanoes‚ shield volcanoes and fissure volcanoes are unevenly distributed in the area‚ with a few youngest ones in the state such as Mt. Napier. Other volcanic features such as stony rises‚ lava tubes/caves‚ tumulis‚ lava canals and natural bridges can all be found in this area. The volcanoes are very significant to residents in the local region‚ as it bring fertile soil for agriculture and opportunities for other industries such as stone cutting or

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    1792 Mount Unzen erupted which devastated Japan. Mount Unzen is a group of active overlapping stratovolcanoes. They are located on the island of Kyushu which is Japan’s most southern main island. Not only was the Eruption deadly but the Mayu-Yama Lava domes collapsed which triggered a Mega-Tsunami that killed nearly 15‚000 people. This was one of Japans worst volcanic disasters. The Volcano has been dormant for 198 years until the early 1990’s when the volcano became active and erupted again in

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    have little gas build-up and little pyroclastic outbursts‚ these volcanoes can be extremely dangerous. Quiet eruptions and large amounts of fast‚ runny lava

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    Mt. Nyiragongo Essay

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    Nyiragongo; it is very much more than that though. Mt. Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano‚ a composite-cone volcano. It is on the African plate‚ where it is splitting in the middle at a divergent plate boundary. The type of lava in the enormous lava lake is melilite nephelinite‚ mafic lava‚ with low viscosity due to the low silica content. The magma is olivine melilititic formed by small-fraction partial melting at the base of the lithosphere. The rock that comes from Mt. Nyiragongo is melilite nephelinite

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    Mount Etna

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    of its summit changes with each eruption‚ and over the centuries a few lava flows have reached the coast. Over 1200 square meters of Etna ’s surface is covered with solidified lava. Etna offers skiing in the Winter months and breathtaking hikes in the woods during the Summer. There are also a number of smaller peaks on the slopes of Etna‚ and some interesting caverns. Since Etna is a strato volcano‚ with relatively cool lava temperatures and numerous openings (vents)‚ nobody ever knows precisely

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    volcanoes

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    whereby the flow of superheated lava over the area surrounding an erupted volcano changes the form of some of the existing rock from both sedimentary and igneous rocks into a metamorphic rock such as is the case with some forms of granite. PARTS OF A VOLCANO cross-section through a stratovolcano(vertical scale is exaggerated): 1. Large magma chamber2. Bedrock3. Conduit (pipe)4. Base5. Sill6. Dike7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano8. Flank 9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano10. Throat11

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    A volcano is an opening in the earth ’s surface through which lava‚ hot gases‚ and rock fragments erupt. These openings are formed when melted rock from deep in the earth build up around the opening‚ and form mountains. When these openings erupt they shoot out huge fiery clouds over the mountain‚ and spew glowing rivers of melted lava down their sides. In some eruptions‚ red-hot ash and cinders shoot out the mountaintop‚ and large chunks of hot rock are blasted high into the air. Only a few spectacular

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    Geography

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    Disadvantages: Sea - during a volcanic eruption earthquakes happen‚ and tsunamis may be created. Also‚ if it is a volcanic island‚ the island may be destroyed‚ and there is no escape. Lava flow - these are very slow moving‚ but destructive as they cannot be stopped and they set fire to everything in their path. Pyroclastic flow - these are impossible to outrun‚ travelling at about 300 km/h‚ and are extremely destructive Mudflow/lahar - these are mud rivers that have the consistency of cement

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    Indie Cafe in Singapore

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    offerings. Now let us ponder on the wonders of indie cafes to understand their phenomenal allure. Coffee…not for the faint hearted With a wide variety of painstakingly sourced beans‚ heavy duty equipments and an arduous process of brewing a single cup of coffee‚ it is clear that a majority of these cafés are targeted at coffee aficionados. Café’s such as Toby Estate‚ Forty Hands‚ The Broers Café‚ Jimmy Monkey Café‚ Loysel’s Toy and Smitten Coffee & Tea Bar produce coffee that rivals those of their

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