Being the largest volcano on Earth, Mauna Loa is 4 km above sea level, its mass 8 km added to the long submarine planks that dig into the sea floor another 5 km. This gigantic volcano takes up half the island of Hawaii, the summit in 17 km (56,000 ft) above its base. The volcano adds to 85 percent of the other islands combined. Being one of Earth’s most frequent erupting volcanoes, erupting thirty three times since its first ever documentation in 1843. The last eruption happened in 1984, and we’re certain the volcano will erupt again, but for now we monitor Mauna Loa for any indication of its next eruption.
Mauna Loa, located in the south-central part of the island, is the Earth’s largest volcano (History culture 1). Kilauea lies east of Mauna Loa and is considered to be the Earth’s active volcano; if it also Hawaii’s youngest (Encyclopedia Britannica 2). The Park displays the results of 70 million years of volcanism, migration, and evolution processes that thrust a bare land from the sea and clothed it with complex and unique ecosystems and a distinct human culture. The park encompasses 230,000 acres and ranges from sea level to the summit of the earth's most massive volcano, Mauna Loa at 13,677 feet. Kilauea, the world's most active volcano, offers scientists insights on the birth of the Hawaiian Islands and visitors views of dramatic volcanic landscapes (Hawaii Volcanoes Park)
Compare and evaluate two contrasting eruptions and evaluate how damaging they were. I am going to compare the Eyjafjallajokull eruption of 2010 and the Chaiten eruption of 2008. Both eruptions were damaging in different ways: The town of Chaiten is in Chile, an LEDC, and the Chaiten volcano had not erupted for 9500 years prior to May 2, 2008. Chaiten is part of the longest chain of Fold Mountains in the world, the Andes Mountains, and sits above the Peru-Chile subduction zone. In this convergent boundary, the denser Nazca Plate is being subducted beneath the less dense continental lithosphere of the South American tectonic plate.
According to the same source, Iceland owes its existence to a large volcanic hot spot sitting on the mid-oceanic ridge. This being said, Iceland has a great number of volcanoes, and active ones at that. The most famous volcano in Iceland is Mount Hekla, which erupts magma. Hekla is still “very active”, according to the Iceland Total. It erupted in 1970, 1980, 1981, 1991, and the most recent eruption occurred in 2000 and lasted for 12 days.
Easter Island, which consists of a scant 64 miles of land, is the most isolated habitable land on the planet. It lies in the Pacific Ocean more than 2,000 miles west of the nearest continent (South America), and 1,400 miles away from even the nearest habitable island (Pitcairm). Given its mild climate, volcanic origins and fertile soil, Easter Island should be a miniature paradise. Instead, it is a virtual wasteland. When seafaring Europeans first encountered Easter Island they found a population of about 2,000 people scraping out a living on the barren island.
is quite late in the history of the Universe, which -- as we told you in our lastInstruction -- is thought to have begun about 15 million years ago with an almostunimaginable explosion called The Big Bang.At first, the Earth was just a ball of molten rock and gasses. As it began to cool,dense materials like iron sank down into its core. Lighter materials likecompounds of oxygen and water rose toward the surface.That's why the Earth is made up of different layers -- as you can see in this crosssection:There are three layers in the Earth: the Crust, the Mantle and the Core. For another way to look at them, click:http://mediatheek.thinkquest.nl/~ll125/en/fullstruct.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 2 www.etap.orgEarth Science Lesson 3Dynamic Earth Processes (Grades 8-12 )Instruction 3-1The Internal Structure of the Earth2 of 2California Content Standards Earth Science 3.b.B. J. Subbiondo © 2004The CrustThe outer layer of the Earth is called the crust.
El Salvador officially the Republic of El Salvador (Spanish:República de El Salvador, is the smallest country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador. El Salvador borders the Pacific Ocean on the south, and the countries of Guatemala to the west andHonduras to the north and east. Its easternmost region lies on the coast of theGulf of Fonseca, opposite Nicaragua. As of 2013, El Salvador had a population of approximately 6.29 million, By 1525 the Spanish Empire had conquered the territory, incorporating it into the colony of New Spain up until 1821 when it achieved independence as part of the Federal Republic of Central America.
The islands, still uninhabited on a permanent basis by man and, hence, shrouded in mystery, soon came to be known as the Enchanted Islands because they disappeared into the fog at certain times of year and could not be seen by passing ships. In fact, some 17th-century Spaniards claimed that the Galapagos Islands were not islands at all, but mere shadows. But by the 18th century, British (and later, early American) whalers and sealers began to visit the islands regularly as part of an effort to set up an industry center in the Pacific Ocean. So heavy was the activity on the islands at this time that, in 1800, a makeshift "post office" -- consisting of little more than a marked barrel -- was established on Floreana. This post office still exists
This does not imply that all that was brought to New Zealand by the Europeans was negative, but the negative impacts strongly outweigh the positive one. Before 1769, the indigenous people of New Zealand are known the Maori and they believed that New Zealand was the only inhabited land on earth, because as far as they knew, there were no other people on earth. They believed this because New Zealand was the last explored land by the Europeans and at this point they had yet to find and explore this foreign land. (Wright p.6) Instead of having written records, the Maroi oral traditions of storytelling have led to a difficult outcome regarding a lack of written literature to factually describe the Maoris background. There have been many different theories when discussing initial settlements in New Zealand.
The initial Enga tribe was located north and east of the southern highlands in rugged terrain of Panguna, New Guinea. There are several thousand communities located in the country. They have stayed in this area all of their lives. This providence is approximately the size of California, about 462,840 sq km (US Department of State, 2010, October 8, Geography). The estimated population in 2008 was 6.5 million, with a growth rate of 2% between 2005 – 2010.