Famous Volcanoes
This Strato Volcano dominates the Seattle skyline
What is Mt Rainier
The classic baking soda and vinegar volcano is usually simulating this volcanic type?
What is Strato/Cone Composite
All volcanic eruptions will be accompanied by these shallow lower magnitude seismic event?
What are Earthquakes?
Ongoing today in Iceland this style of long linear eruptions is threatening coastal fishing villages?
What is a Fissure Eruption
Tommy Lee Jones attempted to save Los Angeles in this 1997 block buster?
What is Volcano
Erupting in 1980 this is the most active (over the past 4k years) of the Cascadian Volcanoes
What is Mt St Helen?
What are Shield Volcanoes
These catastrophic mudflows can be triggered by melting glacial ice or from pyronimbus rainfall, we have sirens to alert the public of arrival.
What are Lahars?
Trapped gas pockets and light glassy structure allow this volcanic rock to literally float on water
What is Pumice?
Staring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan this 1990 film highlights the search for meaning
What is Joe Versus the Volcano
The eruption and subsequent tsunami of this volcano in 1883 impacted the Dutch interest in Indonesia
What is Krakatoa
Both Crater Lake and Yellowstone identify as this type of volcanic process?
What is a caldera
GPS/Lidar/INSAR are used to measure what characteristic of eruptive precurser?
Insulating and surrounding lava these features allow flows to reach greater distances
What are lava tubes
A former James Bond star lead the cast in this movie filmed in Wallace ID
What is Dantes Peak
The pyroclastic flows from this Italian volcano baked and casted the residents and city of Pompeii as Pliny the Younger watched in horror
What is Vesuvius
Forming in high silica mostly felsic lavas these volcanoes (while small in scale) often help rebuild Strato Volcanoes after eruption?
What are lava domes
Higher concentration of this gas relative to other volcanic gasses can indicate magmas are closser to the surface and an eruption might be forthcoming?
What is Sulfur Dioxide
The spreading of tectonics plates at mid ocean ridges drives this type of melting
What is Decompression
Narrated and Produced by Werner Herzog this 2016 movie went direct to Netflix (and chill?)
What is Into the Inferno
This Icelandic volcanoes eruption in 2010 caused transatlantic flights to pause for parts of April
What is Eyjafjallajökull
Mined for road and landscaping material these features form steep slopes at the angle of repose with vesicular (often red oxidized) basaltic tephra
What are Cinder Cones
Blamed on the killing at Lake Nyos in Cameroon and claiming small childern in mazukus around Goma this volcanic gas is heavier than air?
What is Carbon Dioxide
The addition of water from a subducting slab induces this type of melting?
What is Flux
In this 1967 Sean Connery James Bond movie the villain uses a volcano as a secret base to launch rockets
What is You Only Live Twice