Beautiful photography of lava flows from the current eruption of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii is explained by volcanologist Ken Hon, a noted authority on the formation of lava flow fields. Hon and Gansecki are with the Geology Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, which provides them ...
Metal vs. Rock: Different Lava, Different Landscapes The metallic lava flows traveled 10 times faster and spread more thinly than the rock flows, breaking into a myriad of braided channels. The metal also traveled largely beneath the rock flow, emerging from the leading edge of the rocky lava....
This creates a natural recycling process that mimics how ecosystems work in the wild, making aquaponics a go-to method for anyone interested in sustainable, chemical-free food production. For beginners, aquaponics is not only fascinating, it’s also accessible. With the right setup, you can ...
This creates a natural recycling process that mimics how ecosystems work in the wild, making aquaponics a go-to method for anyone interested in sustainable, chemical-free food production. For beginners, aquaponics is not only fascinating, it’s also accessible. With the right setup, you can ...
Continental vs. Continental Convergent Boundaries When continental platescollide into one another, neither plate can subduct under the other because they are equally light and buoyant. Instead, they are pressed together under intense pressure. This pressure creates buckling and slipping, both vertically ...
The molten lava flows onto the seafloor forming pillow basalt. When the pillow basalt cools it forms new seafloor between the divergent plates. This explains what is plate tectonics theory of divergent boundaries. Atlantic Ocean is a divergent boundaryThe continents on each side of the Atlantic ...
Viscosity is the resistance of flow that a fluid has. It is often referred to the thickness of a fluid because thicker fluid flows slower than thinner fluid. Thickness and increased viscosity creates more friction while thinness and decreased viscosity creates less friction. ...
Yellowstone sits above a spot in the Earth's mantle where columns of hot, molten rock called plumes rise to form volcanoes in the planet's crust. This spot is called a hotspot, and it creates atype of volcano not associated with a plate boundary. Yellowstone has produced three calderatypes...
Magma is molten rock and can be found below the Earth's surface and above the Earth's surface. When above, it is called lava. Magma can cool when it's both inside the Earth and outside the Earth. Answer and Explanation:1 When magma cools, it creates igneous rock. Igneous is a word...
Obsidian forms when lava cools quickly. When lava cools more slowly, crystals begin to form, giving the rock a more textured appearance. Snowflake obsidian can form underground, in cracks that the magma seeps into, or above ground in slow-moving, silica-rich lava flows. ...