Essays Tagged: "stratovolcano"

The History of the Vesuvious Volcano.

Vesuvius. Even though it may be classified as an active stratovolcano off the coast of the Naples Bay in Italy, it has proven itself more like a dragon thro ...

(1 pages) 28 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Canadian Volcanoes/ This paper talks about Canadian volcanoe characteristics.

three young volcanoes in the Atlin area. This volcano is 4712 feet tallRuby Mountain- It is a small stratovolcano located 25 km east of Atlin, in northwestern British Columbia. Ruby Mountain volcano i ... ger- Mount Meager, 150 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, is the youngest of four overlapping stratovolcanoes resting on a 400 m high ridge of nonvolcanic, crystalline and metamorphic rock. The ...

(4 pages) 23 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Mount Vesuvius: An Active Volcano

se after each of its many eruptions, its crater collapsed a little making it smaller. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano or a composite volcano. This means that it erupts violently and quietly in an alternat ...

(1 pages) 14 0 5.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Mt Pinatubo

Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders ... section of the borders of the provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga. Ancestral Pinatubo was a stratovolcano made of andesite and dacite.TIMELINE•2nd April 1991 - The first steam blasts esca ...

(4 pages) 12 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Popocatepetl

anic-continental convergence (from Pidwirny, 2001) Popocate'petl is a 5,465-meter andesitic stratovolcano that is located 19.02 degrees north and 98.62 degrees west. It is approximately 55 km ... (TMVB) (fig. 3). "Volcanic activity related to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt started during Early stratovolcano Miocene" (Capral, L. et al., 2000). "The TMVB is 1200 kilometers long and goes from th ...

(7 pages) 4930 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Mount Nyiragongo The volcanoes of the world are magnificent and

lagira, and all of the other surrounding volcanoes ("Nyiragongo Volcanic Eruption").Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano, also know as a composite cone volcano. A stratovolcano is a tall, steep-sloped, nearl ... lcanic structure. Its andesitic lava is mainly deposited from one enormous central vent. Typically, stratovolcanoes are the most violent type of volcano. Mount Nyiragongo is no exception. Raging fires ...

(3 pages) 5874 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Geological Features Tour; SCI 244 WIU

aska to Siberia. Kanaga Island is approximately 30 miles long and four to eight miles wide. It is a stratovolcano known for its fumaroles and hot springs. It is in the northern corner of Kanaga Island ...

(10 pages) 16 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences