¨Lava Beds National Monuments¨ stationed in north eastern California is a park filled with fun filling beauty‚ history‚ and scientific wonders. This would be a trip of a lifetime‚ but only if our principle would let us go. Lava Beds National Monuments has a humongous amount of beauty stretching all the way across the park. With the Lava running all over the place like a water runs in a stream. The park has beautiful figures like lava tubes‚ scenic trails‚ climb cumber cones‚ and beautiful desert
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The Werewolf By Angela Carter Fairy Tales tend to start off dark and progress to have a happy ending or‚ failing that‚ to teach a lesson. Angela Carter does an excellent job of this in her short story “The Werewolf”. This is her take on “Little Red Riding Hood”. This is not the classic spin on the original fairy tale however‚ in Angela’s take on it we will explore ageism‚ sexism‚ and greed. Though the story casts a once-upon-a-time aura‚ the lessons learned from it are as modern as the IPhone
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Mount Vesuvius 79 A.D VS Mount St Helens 1980 Would you rather be by Vesuvius when it erupted or be by St Helens when it erupted?. Some people ask this question because both eruptions seemed pretty bad . For example ‚ pompeii was covered in ash because of vesuvius. Although‚ there are many differences between the two volcanoes and their eruptions they also have a lot in common. These are some ways they are alike and different. Both volcanoes have a lot in common. For example‚ there both stratovolcanoes
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Mount. Vesuvius Vesuvius is the only active volcano in mainland Europe‚ and has produced some of the continent ’s largest volcanic eruptions. Vesuvius and other Italian volcanoes‚ are part of the Campanian volcanic arc. The Campanian arc sits on a tectonic boundary where the African plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate. Apparently‚ no one was aware that Vesuvius was an active volcano‚ even after an earthquake in February of the year 63. The towns’ people thought the soil
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You can hike‚ kayak‚ and canoe here. You can fish waist-deep in rivers as clear as glass. And you can watch the best fish catcher of all‚ the great Alaskan brown bear‚ sometimes diving completely under the water for its prey‚ sometimes catching fish in midair. At the end of the day you can relax in a rustic yet sumptuous lodge on the shore of a sapphire lake and recount the day’s enchantments. In 1912 a volcano here erupted with a force ten times that of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Suddenly news of
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One hundred twenty-two years ago‚ one of the most destructive powers of Nature was felt around the globe. This power was from the explosion of Krakatoa‚ an island volcano that lies in the Sunda Strait. The scientists of the time struggled to comprehend the destruction that resulted from this great explosion. The results from the examination of the destruction established a landmark in learning about volcanoes. But let us back up a bit and learn exactly what happened before the Great Explosion
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On a small island in Indonesia‚ the volcano named Tambora erupted with the most powerful eruption in recent history since the 1800s. Tambora had been dormant up to this point and had not erupted in five thousand years. The volcano’s horrible eruption‚ caused enormous amounts of destruction and its effects were noted around the world. It killed ninety thousand people around the world and it destroyed countless crops. The Europeans first found Tambora. They thought it was extinct. Tambora
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Assessment task Knowing and understanding Activity 1 1.1 1.2 The most volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur around plate boundaries. Activity 2 2.1.1 Divergent boundary 2.1.2 Convergent boundary 2.1.3 Transform boundary 2.2.2 Divergent boundary Divergent boundaries cause oceanic ridges‚ valleys and lakes. Divergent boundaries can cause volcanic eruptions. Location: Basalt in (Mid-Atlantic Ridge‚ East-African Rift). Convergent boundary Leads to trenches
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Devils Tower: Offensive or Historic? Devils Tower is 867-foot-tall butte located in the northeastern corner of Wyoming. The enormous wonder of nature is believed to be roughly 50 million years old. The tower became the United States’ first national monument on September 24‚1906 during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration. Recently‚ spiritual leaders of the Lakota‚ the Cheyenne‚ and several other Native American tribes of the plains‚ because of their strong spiritual ties to the monument‚ have
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Description of the Event In a concurrence that still has NASA specialists shaking their heads‚ a small asteroid completely unrelated to 2012 DA14 struck Earth only hours before the publicized event. The impactor flew unexpectedly‚ literally from the direction of the sun where no telescope could see it‚ and took everyone by surprise as the meteor speckled across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains. The large fireball was observed on the morning of Feb. 15‚ 2013‚ in the skies near Chelyabinsk‚
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