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1 Volcanoes and Igneous Rocks
Chapter 6 Volcanoes and Igneous Rocks

2 VOLCANOES AND IGNEOUS ROCKS

3 Objectives Identify several different categories of volcanic eruptions. Identify the volcanic hazards. Describe how temperature, pressure, and water content affect a rock’s melting point. Identify three properties that distinguish one lava from another. Distinguish between and identify volcanic and plutonic rocks. Describe the most common plutonic formations.

4 Volcanoes and volcanic hazards
A vent through which lava, solid rock debris, volcanic ash, and gasses erupt from Earth’s crust to its surface Can be explosive or nonexplosive

5 Volcanoes and volcanic hazards
Lava Molten rock that reaches Earth’s surface Magma Molten rock, which may include fragments of rock, volcanic glass and ash, or gas

6 Eruptions, landforms and materials
Eruption types Shield volcano A broad, flat volcano with gently sloping sides, built of successive lava flows Produce flood basalts or basalt plateaus

7 Eruptions, landforms and materials
Eruption types Strombolian More explosive than Hawaiian Create loose volcanic rock called spatter cones or cinder cones

8 Eruptions, landforms and materials
Eruption types Vulcanian More explosive than Strombolian and, as a result, can generate billowing clouds of ash up to 10 km Produce pyroclastic flows Hot volcanic fragments (tephra) that, buoyed by heat and volcanic gases, flow very rapidly

9 Eruptions, landforms and materials
Eruption types Plinian Named after Pliny the Elder, who died during eruption of Mount Vesuvius Most violent eruptions, generating ash columns the can exceed 20 kilometers Produce steep sided volcanoes, called stratovolcanoes Composed of solidified lava flows interlayered with pyroclastic material. Steep sides that curve upward

10 Eruptions, landforms and materials

11 Eruptions, landforms and materials

12 Eruptions, landforms and materials
Viscosity The degree to which a substance resists flow, Less viscous liquid is runny More viscous liquid is thick Volcanic materials Pyroclasts Tephra Ash Agglomerates Tuff

13 Eruptions, landforms and materials
Other volcanic features Craters Resurgent dome Thermal spring Geysers Fumaroles

14 Volcanic hazards Primary effects Secondary effects Pyroclastic flows
Volcanic gases Secondary effects Related to, but not a direct result of, volcanic activity Fires Flooding Mudslides Debris avalanche

15 Volcanic hazards

16 Volcanic hazards

17 Volcanic hazards Tertiary and beneficial effects Change a landscape
Affect climate on regional and global scale Renew mineral content and replenish fertility Geothermal energy Provide mineral deposits

18 Predicting Eruptions Establish a volcano’s history
Active Dormant Monitor changes and anomalies Earthquakes Changes in shape or elevation Volcanic gases Changes in ground temperature Composition of water

19 Predicting Eruptions

20 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt
Heat and pressure inside Earth Continental crust: temperature rises 30°C/km, then about 6.7°C/km Ocean crust: temperature rises twice as rapid

21 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt

22 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt
Effect of temperature and pressure on melting

23 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt
Heat and pressure inside Earth Fractional melt A mixture of molten and solid rock Fractionation Separation of melted materials from the remaining solid material during the course of melting

24 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt

25 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt
Magma Molten rock below surface Lava Magma when it reaches the surface Differ in composition, temperature and viscosity

26 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt
Lava Composition 45-75% of magma by weight is silica Water vapor and carbon dioxide Temperature Lavas vary in temperature between 750°C and 1200°C Magmas with high H2O contents melt at lower temperatures Viscosity Lavas vary in their ability to flow Influenced by silica content and temperature

27 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt

28 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt
The tectonic setting Lava characteristics influenced by location Oceanic, divergent margins Lava is thin with a steep geothermal gradient Subduction zones Typically have high water content and melt at lower temperatures Hot- spots Lava tends to be hot and basaltic Build giant shield volcanoes Continental divergent margins are all different High silica lava

29 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt

30 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt

31 How, Why and Where Rocks Melt

32 Cooling and Crystallization
The process whereby mineral grains form and grow in a cooling magma (or lava) Classified as: Volcanic Plutonic

33 Rate of Cooling Rapid cooling: Volcanic rocks and textures
An igneous rock formed from lava Glassy Aphanitic Porphyritic Pumice Vesicular basalt

34 Rate of Cooling

35 Rate of Cooling Slow cooling: Plutonic rocks and textures
An igneous rock formed underground from magma Phaneritic-a coarse grained texture Can have exceptionally large grains

36 Chemical composition Igneous rocks subdivided into three categories based on silica content Felsic Intermediate Mafic

37

38 Fractional Crystallization
Separation of crystals from liquids during crystallization Bowens reaction series Predictable melting and cooling of minerals

39 Fractional Crystallization

40 Plutons and Plutonism Plutons Batholith
Any body of intrusive igneous rock, regardless of size or shape Batholith A large, irregularly shaped pluton that cuts across the layering of the rock into which it intrudes

41 Plutons and Plutonism Dikes Sills
Forms when magma squeezes into a cross cutting fracture and solidifies Sills Magma that intrudes between two layers and is parallel to them

42 Mount Saint Helens

43 Critical Thinking What factors might prevent magma from reaching Earth’s surface? What reasons can you think of for living near a volcano? Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? If you were to heat up a glass beaker full of crushed rock, the beaker would melt before you could finish studying the rock melting process. How do you think geologists study rock melting?


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