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    Emergency Planning and Crisis Management for Airport Business Summary The recent increase of sudden natural disasters have impacted heavily on the aviation industry resulted in delays‚ congestions‚ confusions‚ customer dissatisfaction and even revenue loss. Most Airports believed they are adequately prepared for unforeseen adverse events. The truth is that many are not. If you do not have carefully designed and rehearsed procedures and structures

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    underneath a hot spot‚ which causes the Hawaiian chain islands. It is where the magma in the mantle breaks through the lithosphere to form extrusive landforms. Shield volcanoes can be formed due to subduction and they tend to start of as a submarine volcano (under water) at either an oceanic/ oceanic convergence or a hotspot. At a hotspot‚ the limited magma plumes rise and go in a circular motion due to the convection currents‚ this eventually lead to the plumes rising up through the mantle and break

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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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    major topographic relief elements on the solid surface of the earth and briefly explain their deposition in relation to the plate tectonics concept. Have you ever wondered where mountains come from‚ why there is a sea floor‚ island arcs or even volcano and what plate tectonic have to do with this? Well worry no more as all your question on the earth’s surfaced topographic relief elements and plate tectonics are about to be answered. The first question that might come to mind is what is a relief

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    Positive Effects of Volcanos Volcanic activity has many positive impacts on both the natural physical environment and on socio-economic activity. Positive impacts include the creation of new land‚ the creation of valuable natural minerals and ores‚ and the enhancement of countries’ tourism potential. Creation of new land: Volcanic activity can result in the creation of new land‚ when material from within the earth’s crust is ejected in the form of molten liquid‚ then cools and solidifies to created

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    Volcanic activity can present a hazard to people and property in various ways and with varying degrees of severity. Whether or not these represent a significant danger to people is dependant on how well prepared the area surrounding the volcano is. The level of preparation is often linked to the overall wealth of the country which the hazard is in. This also impacts how effectively the volcanic even is managed before and after the eruption takes place. The timing of an eruption throughout the day

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    we are kept left on the edge of our seat in a few of the scenes‚ for instance when he jumps aboard a helicopter with a drunken oaf of a pilot who’s intent is to fly straight into a storm above the ocean and escaping the euruption of an Icelandic volcano in a small skoda with a driver who is a stranger to him and does not speak fluent

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    What forms after volcano eruption and after magma cools? Igneous rock forms when superheated volcanic liquid‚ also called magma‚ cools and thus hardens through a process of crystallization in one of two manners: by cooling and crystallization on the Earth’s surface such as after a volcanic eruption; or by cooling more gradually through a process of rising as it cools through the magma while still below the Earth’s surface. Scientists further classify such rocks based on their mineral characteristics:

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    on any aid which may need to be brought in via planes. Also it can cause breathing problem due to high concentration of carbon and dioxide and sulphur gases found that erupt from the volcano. Pyroclastic flow is dense destructive mass of hot ash lava fragments and gases which are ejected in an explosion from a volcano and they travel at great speeds and destroy anything in its way. The image shows a pyrolcastic cloud. Lava can be disputed to be a secondary effect however in the eruption of Mount Nyirangongo

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    “EVALUATE HOW PLATE TECTONICS THEORY HELPS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRIBUTON OF SEISMIC AND VOLCANIC EVENTS” In this essay I am going to look in detail at plate tectonic theory and how it can be used to explain seismic and volcanic events worldwide. However‚ I will also look at other potential causes of these events‚ and some evidence that does not follow the theory that all these events are caused by plate boundaries. I am going to look at a range of case studies from differing scales

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