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Understanding Volcanoes and Eruptions

Volcanoes are openings in the Earth's surface that allow ash, gas, and lava to escape during eruptions. They typically form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as along the Pacific Ring of Fire that surrounds the Pacific Ocean and contains over 75% of the world's volcanoes. While most volcanoes are located near plate boundaries, some form over abnormally hot areas of rock called mantle plumes, like those that created the Hawaiian Islands.

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Understanding Volcanoes and Eruptions

Volcanoes are openings in the Earth's surface that allow ash, gas, and lava to escape during eruptions. They typically form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as along the Pacific Ring of Fire that surrounds the Pacific Ocean and contains over 75% of the world's volcanoes. While most volcanoes are located near plate boundaries, some form over abnormally hot areas of rock called mantle plumes, like those that created the Hawaiian Islands.

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VOLCANOES

All about volcanoes :

Volcanoes are openings in the Earths surface. When they are active
they can let ash, gas and
hot magma escape in sometimes violent and spectacular eruptions.

The word volcano originally comes from the name of the Roman god of
fire, Vulcan.

Volcanoes are usually located where tectonic plates meet. This is


especially true for the Pacific Ring of fire, an area around the Pacific
Ocean where over 75% of the volcanoes on Earth are found.

While most volcanoes form near tectonic boundaries, they can also
form in areas that contain abnormally hot rock inside the Earth. Known
as mantle plumes, these hotspots are found at a number of locations
around the globe with the most notable being in Hawaii.

Hot liquid rock under the Earths surface is known as magma, it is


called lava after it comes out of a volcano.

Some famous volcanic eruptions of modern times include Mount


Krakatoa in 1883, Novarupta in 1912, Mount St Helens in 1980 and Mt
Pinatubo in 1991.

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