1. The locations of volcanoes are mostly determined by plate tectonics.
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2. Essential Questions
How do plate tectonics influence the formation of volcanoes?
Where are the major zones of volcanism?
What are the parts of a volcano?
How do volcanic landforms differ?
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3. Vocabulary Review New convergent volcanism hot spot flood basalt
fissure
conduit
vent
crater
caldera
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cinder cone
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4. Zones of Volcanism
Volcanism describes all the processes associated with the discharge of magma, hot fluids, and gases.
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5. Zones of Volcanism
Most volcanoes form at plate boundaries. The majority form at convergent boundaries and divergent boundaries.
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6. Zones of Volcanism Convergent volcanism
In an oceanic-continental subduction zone, the denser oceanic plate slides under the continental plate into the hot mantle. Parts of the mantle above the subducting plate melt and magma rises, eventually leading to the formation of a volcano.
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7. Zones of Volcanism Convergent volcanism
Most volcanoes located on land result from oceanic-continental subduction. These volcanoes are characterized by explosive eruptions.
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9. Zones of Volcanism Two major belts
The volcanoes associated with convergent plate boundaries form two major belts. The larger belt, the Circum-Pacific Belt, is also called the Pacific Ring of Fire. The outline of the belt corresponds to the outline of the Pacific Plate.
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10. Zones of Volcanism Two major belts
The smaller belt is the Mediterranean Belt. Its general outlines correspond to the boundaries between the Eurasian, African, and Arabian plates.
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11. Zones of Volcanism Divergent volcanism
Eruptions at divergent boundaries tend to be nonexplosive. At the divergent boundary on the ocean floor, eruptions often form huge piles of lava called pillow lava.
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13. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
Some volcanoes form far from plate boundaries over hot spots.
A hot spot is an unusually hot area in Earth’s mantle where high- temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the surface.
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14. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
The Hawaiian islands are located over a plume of magma. The hot spot formed by the magma plume remains stationary while the Pacific Plate slowly moves northwest.
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15. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
The volcanoes on the oldest Hawaiian island, Kauai, are inactive because the island no longer sits above the stationary hot spot. The world’s most active volcano, Kilauea, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is currently located over the hot spot.
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16. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
Chains of volcanoes that form over stationary hot spots provide information about plate motions. The rate and direction of plate motion can be calculated from the positions of these volcanoes.
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17. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
The Hawaiian islands are at one end of the Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain. The oldest seamount, Meiji, is at the other end of the chain and is about 80 million years old.
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19. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
Flood basalts form when lava flows out of long cracks in Earth’s crust. These cracks are called fissures.
The Columbia River basalts, located in the northwestern United States, were formed this way.
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20. Zones of Volcanism Hot spots
About 65 mya in India, a huge flood basalt eruption created an enormous plateau called the Deccan Traps. The volume of basalt in the Deccan Traps is estimated to be about 512,000 km3.
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21. Anatomy of a Volcano
Lava reaches the surface by traveling through a tubelike structure called a conduit.
The lava then emerges through an opening called a vent.
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22. Anatomy of a Volcano
Over time, layers of solidified lava can accumulate to form a mountain known as a volcano. At the top of a volcano, around the vent, is a bowl-shaped depression called a crater.
Volcanic craters are usually less than 1 km in diameter. Larger depressions, called calderas, can be up to 100 km in diameter.
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24. Types of Volcanoes
The appearance of a volcano depends on two factors: the type of material that forms the volcano and the type of eruptions that occur.
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25. Types of Volcanoes Shield volcanoes
A shield volcano is a mountain with broad, gently sloping sides and a nearly circular base.
Shield volcanoes form when layers of lava accumulate during nonexplosive eruptions. They are the largest type of volcano.
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26. Types of Volcanoes Cinder cones
When eruptions eject small pieces of lava into the air, cinder cones form as this material, called tephra, falls back to Earth and piles up around the vent.
Cinder cones have steep sides and are the smallest type of volcano.
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27. Types of Volcanoes Composite volcanoes
Composite volcanoes are formed of layers of ash and hardened chunks of lava from violent eruptions alternating with layers of lava that oozed downslope before solidifying.
These volcanoes are generally cone-shaped with concave slopes.
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29. Review Essential Questions Vocabulary
How do plate tectonics influence the formation of volcanoes?
Where are the major zones of volcanism?
What are the parts of a volcano?
How do volcanic landforms differ?
Vocabulary
volcanism
hot spot
flood basalt
fissure
conduit
vent
crater
caldera
shield volcano
cinder cone
composite volcano
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