CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD There are many volcanos in the world‚ but one particular volcano called Mount Vesuvius is over thousands of years old. It was so powerful that it erupted over 50 times in total so far. When this volcano had its famous eruption‚ it buried the ancient roman city under a very large layer of ash from the volcano. During this event people who lived in the ancient roman city were trying to survive from this tragedy. Over two thousand people had died along with the city being
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Prosper to Perish The Minoan civilization was one of prosperity and influence‚ until its sudden disappearance from the civilized world. Most civilizations go through a pattern of chaos‚ adjustment and finally balance. The Minoans‚ however‚ had balance‚ and then chaos hit and the adjustment ended up being their finite disappearance. In the Golden Age of Athens in the 5th century‚ the Minoans were the stuff of legend‚ remaining so until the discovery of the ruins of Knossos in the 1900’s by British
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Did anyone know that around 10 volcanoes erupt everyday and it helps many people? Volcanoes are very good for many thing and it helps alot of people in the world for a huge list of things that it can do for people volcanoes can help economic trouble and even it can help hunger. This area where people live on volcanoes are safe on many levels like some volcanoes people live on are super quiet eruption volcanoes and they do not erupt and explode like volcanoes people think of. But sometimes disaster
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The city of Pompeii located in Rome was destroyed by a huge volcano and the city was buried alive. By ash and cuit. But the city in West Jordan is a lot different then the city of Pompeii. They’re somethings that are also alike. They’re so many things alike and different but this is how Pompeii and West Jordan are alike in some ways. One way is that we both have lots of people and we also both have buildings‚homes‚shops and roads that is how they are alike in some ways. They’re a lot of things
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Cyndel Van Loh Pd 6 Yellowstone National Park Do you know what area has the most geothermal activity in the world? Even though other places have geothermal activity‚ Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872 and covers the largest area‚ encompasses nearly 3‚500 square miles. The park has Old faithful geyser‚ Lake Yellowstone which is in the caldera of a dormant volcano‚ and the park also has bubbling mud pots‚ hot springs and hot colorful pools. More than half of the world’s geysers are
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Mini-Literature Review The Ox Mountain range is in County Sligo. ‘’The Ox Mountains lie along Sligo’s border with Co. Mayo’’(Libraries 2010). A strip of ancient rocks - gneiss‚ schist and granite - form the bedrock of the Ox Mountains’’(Geological 2016). The uplands of the Ox Mountains are wild and mainly covered by blanket bog. Some parts of the Ox Mountains are heavily forested. To the north and south of the Ox Mountains is farmland that is mainly underlain by Carboniferous Limestone and Sandstone
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The Juan De Fuca tectonic plate is found on the west coast of North America. It is next to the North American plate‚ and according to America’s Tectonics‚ the Juan de Fuca plate is getting subducted under it. This plate is made of oceanic crust‚ but it is also basaltic in some areas. It was named after the pilot and sailor‚ Juan de Fuca‚ an explorer from Europe in the 1600s. The Juan de Fuca plate has a divergent boundary in the Juan de Fuca ridge. New material is made by the Juan de Fuca ridge
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The Nevado Del Ruiz: 1985 eruption Location? Nevado del Ruiz is a volcano in Colombia‚ the northenmost and highest Colombian volcano‚ located at the in the northern most tip of the Andes in South America. Nevado Del Ruiz is a broad‚ glacier-covered volcano that covers more than 200 square kilometers. Has the volcano erupted before? In 1595 and 1845 summit eruptions melted snow and ice and produced mudflows that traveled tens of miles from the volcano‚ these mudflows were confined to the valleys
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Crater Lake partially fills a type of volcanic dejection called a caldera that formed by the collapse of a volcano identified as Mount Mazama during an colossal eruption approximately 7‚700 years ago. Located on the Cascade- Sierra Mountains Plateau area of southern Oregon‚ “Mount Mazama is one of the major volcanoes of the Cascades Arc” (USGS) that extends from northern California to British Columbia. the devastating eruption of Mount Mazama altered the landscape all around the volcano. Pyroclastic
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Banff National Park is Canada’s oldest national park‚ established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains. Banff is the third-oldest national park in the world. In 1883‚ three railway workers‚ Thomas McCardell‚ William McCardell and Frank McCabe discovered a number of hot springs (now known as cave and basin) at the base of what is now called Sulphur Mountain. The park started as a 25 square kilometers (10 square mile) reserve around the Sulphur Mountain Hot Springs‚ established by the Dominion of Canada
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