Volcanic Materials
What is magma?
Molten rock
What type of volcano is the Vesuvius?
What is a Stratovolcano?
Who named this eruption and what did they name it?
Who is Pliny the younger and what are the Plinian eruptions
What are siesmographs?
What are ways of monitoring volcanic activity using a pen, paper and a weight, amongst other things.
Who was on the second field trip?
Carrington, Oceanne, Frazier, Sarah and Victoria
What do cryovolcanoes erupt?
Methane, water, ammonia
There are active volcanos, extinct volcanos and ______ (which means quiet, asleep).
Dormant
The year Pompeii was discovered
1748
What was the name of the movie we watched in class about the volcanologist?
What is Dante's Peak?
What was the date of our first class?
September 2nd
What is Pyroclastic flow made of?
What is pumice, ash, hot lava blocks, and volcanic gasses?
What remains when a volcano "blows its top off"
Caldera
How many people died in the eruption of 79 AD?
What is 16,000 people?
Two precursors of a volcanic eruption.
What are
•Seismicity •Deformation •Snow melt •Water levels and chemistry •Gas emission •Small eruptions?
What is our room number?
Room 11
This material is created when rhyolitic lava is cooled suddenly when it is in contact with cold rocks, ice or water. The result is volcanic glass because there is no time for crystals to form.
What is Obsidian?
This eruption created an ash cloud that closed Europe’s airports for weeks. Bonus 1,000 points if spelled correctly.
Eyjafjallajokull
The amount of volcanic ash that was ejected (in tons).
10 billion tons
Is able to detect increased temperatures before an eruption.
Satellite sensors
What is Professor Adriana's email?
geo.adriana@gmail.com
What is the cooling of magma molecules into crystals?
The characteristic of this type of volcano is steam-driven, because hot rocks come into contact with water and create a column of ash.
Phreatric/phreatomagmatic or Hydrothermal
The name of the ancient town that was hit by a heat surge and a tsunami during the eruption.
Herculaneum
Measures the change of slopes in the ground
What are tiltmeters?
The people who went on the second field trip.
Carrington
Sarah
Victoria
Frazer
Eve
Rowan
Sam
Noam
Giorgia
Kat
Kitty
Alaina