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The document describes the Minoan eruption of the Thera volcano on the Greek island of Santorini. It was a Plinian eruption that devastated settlements on Santorini and nearby islands, including Akrotiri and Thera. Geological evidence shows the Thera volcano erupted numerous times over hundreds of thousands of years before collapsing into a circular caldera filled with seawater and small islands. The violent Minoan eruption produced 40-foot tsunamis, spread volcanic ash across Asia, and caused global cooling for three years.
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The document discusses various types of landforms created by tectonic activity and erosion processes on Earth. It describes how tectonic plates interact and cause geological events like earthquakes and volcanoes that shape the surface of the planet. Specifically, it details how plate collisions can form mountains and volcanoes, while plate divergences produce ocean ridges. It also explains different erosional forces like rivers, wind, glaciers, and karst that carve and transport earthen materials, forming diverse topographic features over long periods of time.
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Volcanoes form at plate boundaries and hot spots where magma rises from below the Earth's crust. There are three main types of volcanoes - shield volcanoes which are wide and gently sloping due to low viscosity basaltic lava flows, cinder cone volcanoes which are steep-sided due to explosive eruptions of thicker granitic lava, and composite volcanoes which have characteristics of both types. Factors like the amount of trapped gases and magma viscosity determine eruption styles from quiet effusions to violent explosions. Major volcanic hazards include lava flows, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, landslides, and tsunamis. Scientists monitor volcanoes for warning signs of impending eruptions.
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Volcanoes form at plate boundaries and hot spots where magma rises from below the Earth's crust. There are three main types of volcanoes - shield volcanoes which are wide and gently sloping due to low viscosity basaltic lava flows, cinder cone volcanoes which are steep-sided due to explosive eruptions of thicker magma, and composite volcanoes which have characteristics of both types. Factors like the amount of trapped gases and magma viscosity determine eruption styles from quiet effusions to violent explosions. Major volcanic hazards include lava flows, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, landslides, and tsunamis. Scientists monitor volcanoes for warning signs of impending eruptions.
Holy Smokes-Its a Volcano.ppt
Volcanoes form at plate boundaries or over hot spots in the Earth's crust. The type of eruption depends on the composition of the magma and amount of trapped gases. Shield volcanoes produce quiet eruptions of basaltic lava forming wide slopes while cinder cone volcanoes have explosive eruptions of thicker magma forming steep slopes. Composite volcanoes have characteristics of both. Major examples discussed are Kilauea, Krakatau, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Pinatubo. Scientists monitor volcanoes for warning signs of an impending eruption like earthquakes or gas changes.
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Volcanoes form at plate boundaries and hot spots where magma rises from below the Earth's crust. There are three main types of volcanoes - shield volcanoes which are wide and gently sloping due to low viscosity basaltic lava flows, cinder cone volcanoes which are steep-sided due to explosive eruptions of thicker granitic lava, and composite volcanoes which have characteristics of both types. Factors like the amount of trapped gases and magma viscosity determine eruption styles from quiet effusions to violent explosions. Monitoring volcanoes helps predict eruptions by detecting signs like earthquakes and gas changes. Eruptions release lava and ash that shape landscapes but can also endanger lives and property.
Santorini, Greece - A jewel at Aegean Sea
Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast from Greece's mainland. It is formed from what remains of an enormous volcanic explosion that destroyed early settlements on a single island. Santorini features spectacular cliffs, villages situated on the cliffs overlooking a central lagoon surrounded by the steep cliffs, and an impressive caldera landscape. The island was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, the Minoan eruption around 3,600 years ago.
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- 1. on a ridge of the steep, 360 m high Messavouno mountain on the Greek island of Santorini
- 2. * Plinian type of volcano *Devastated the Minoan settlements of Akrotiri and the island of Thera as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and on the coast of Crete
- 3. Geological evidence shows the Thera volcano erupted numerous times over several hundred thousand years before the Minoan eruption. In a repeating process, the volcano would violently erupt, then eventually collapse into a roughly circular seawater-filled caldera, with numerous small islands forming the circle Immediately prior to the Minoan eruption, the walls of the caldera formed a nearly continuous ring of islands with the only entrance lying between Thera and the tiny island of Aspronisi.
- 4. On Santorini, there is a 60 m (200 ft)Template:Convert/track/a bbr/on thick layer of white tephra that overlies the soil clearly delineating the ground level prior to the eruption. This layer has three distinct bands that indicate the different phases of the eruption
- 5. - That fiery explosion killed upwards of 40,000 people in just a few hours - produced colossal tsunamis 40 feet tall, spewed volcanic ash across Asia, and caused a drop in global temperatures and created strangely colored sunsets for three years - The blast was heard 3,000 miles away
- 6. It all started two million years ago… when the magma first broke out of the depths in which it was formed and appeared on the surface of earth. It took thousands of eruptions since then to build up the island of Santorini, eruptions that were often violent enough to add a new layer of earth and rock to the island or even demolish a large part of the volcano.