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A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time. The word volcano is derived from Italian vulcano, after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.[1]
Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust (called "non-hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift Valley, the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America and the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes.
Volcanoes can be caused by mantle plumes. These so-called hotspots, for example at Hawaii, can occur far from plate boundaries. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons
cool.... how did you know you would get a shot at it erupting?
By perea4091 1247608547 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveBut this is a second rate Hollywood miniature. The S**ker probably isn't 5 feet tall.
By ratgelder 1247588648 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis looks fake to me - also the sound comes BEFORE - the 3rd eruption???
By mywickedtwin 1249145077 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeat 0:48 into the film, near the shoreline on the right side. If that isn't the Skipper, Gilligan, Ginger, MaryAnn, the Professor, and the Howells running for their lives, then I don't know what it is!
By elChuppacabra 1248148938 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removecompa there is nothin at 48 seconds ??? is it
By vatofredy 1248152045 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveReal eruption has almost no fire and massive amounts of smoke and ash. Does not even look anything close to Mauna Loa or Hawaii.
Totally Hollywood.
Thanks for posting this video. Keep posting such videos.. information on volcaones is simply cool...
By deepum 1247552666 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveIf your interested in Volcano's check out the SUPER Volcano in Yellowstone Park...You don't want to be around for that one and it's awakening.
By Hawkwind2008 1247610856 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewauuuuuuuuoooooooooo
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