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    Volcanoes form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as at subduction zones where plates converge or at mid-ocean ridges where plates diverge, as well as at hot spots in the Earth's crust. The main features of volcanoes include their shape as either shield, cinder cone, composite, or caldera volcanoes. Volcanic activity can also occur underwater at submarine volcanoes or beneath glaciers at subglacial volcanoes.

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    Volcanoes form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as at subduction zones where plates converge or at mid-ocean ridges where plates diverge, as well as at hot spots in the Earth's crust. The main features of volcanoes include their shape as either shield, cinder cone, composite, or caldera volcanoes. Volcanic activity can also occur underwater at submarine volcanoes or beneath glaciers at subglacial volcanoes.

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    Volcanoes form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as at subduction zones where plates converge or at mid-ocean ridges where plates diverge, as well as at hot spots in the Earth's crust. The main features of volcanoes include their shape as either shield, cinder cone, composite, or caldera volcanoes. Volcanic activity can also occur underwater at submarine volcanoes or beneath glaciers at subglacial volcanoes.

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    VOLCANOES

     What are volcanoes?


     How volcanoes are formed
     Main features of a Volcano
     Types of volcanoes
     How volcanoes erupt
     Types of volcanic eruptions
     Effects of volcanic eruption
     Philippine Volcanoes
     Government agencies to monitor eruption
    What is Volcano?
    • A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a
    planetary-mass object, such as Earth,
    that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and
    gases to escape from a magma
    chamber below the surface. On
    Earth, volcanoes are most often found
    where tectonic plates are diverging or
    converging, and most are found
    underwater.
    https://youtu.be/WgktM2luLok
    How and Where do volcanoes
    occur?
    Most form along plate boundaries ….
    1. in subduction zones (converging
    plates);
    2. where plates are pulling apart
    (divergent plates);
    3. over hot spots
    How and Where Volcanoes Form
    Volcanic activity takes place primarily at SUBDUCTION ZONES

    4. Some of the magma reaches


    Earth’s surface, and volcanoes
    1. Water in the subducted rock is form on the overriding
    released into the asthenosphere. continental plate.

    Oceanic Continental
    lithosphere lithosphere

    Asthenosphere
    3. The magma
    is less dense
    2. The water lowers the melting temperatures of than its
    materials in the asthenosphere, leading to magma surroundings,
    formation. so it rises.
    Igneous Activity at Subduction Zones
    As a seafloor slab sinks into the mantle at a subduction zone, melting of rock
    occurs in the mantle above the subducted plate.
    The magma rises through the crust where it may form volcanoes.

    The subducted slab may Likewise, the subducted slab


    diving under continental may dive under another
    crust forming a continental oceanic plate and form an
    arc.. island arc.
    How and Where Volcanoes Form

    USGS

    Most volcanoes occur associated with subduction zones (convergent margin).


    Seafloor spreading (divergent margin) is associated with a large amount of
    volcanic activity.
    How and Where Volcanoes Form

    Magma and volcanoes also form at HOT SPOTS.

    Kauai
    Oahu
    Direction of Molokai
    Plate
    Lanai
    Movement
    Maui
    Hawaii

    The Hawaiian Islands formed over a hot spot.


    Major Volcanoes Around the World
    What are the main features of a
    volcano? - Internet Geography
    Volcanoes are classified
    by shape, size, and orientation
    According to SHAPE

    4 Different Types of Volcanoes According to Shape -


    Owlcation - Education
    The manner of eruption for cinder cones is relatively simple. When
    the lava erupts, cinders of it are blown into the air. These fragmented
    cinders fall a short distance from the opening, thus creating the cone.
    https://youtu.be/aS_xl3nu_mY
    shield volcanoes can be very, very big in size. However, they are not
    as dangerous as that size might make it seem. This is because the
    eruption of lava out of shield volcanoes is not accompanied by
    pyroclastic material (bursts of gas and particles).
    Shield volcanoes may be tall but tend to be very broad, with less steep
    slopes than other volcanoes. https://youtu.be/byJp5o49IF4
    The general structure of composite volcanoes is tall and symmetrical
    and with steep sides. Commonly, composite volcanoes erupt hot
    gases, ash, lava, and pumice as well as stiff, slow-moving lava.
    Moreover, deadly mudflows—also commonly known as ‘lahars’—can
    also accompany the eruption. https://youtu.be/1u1Ys4m5zY4
    https://youtu.be/8KN0uXEOhWU
    SUPERVOLCANOES
    A caldera is a large crater-shaped basin that forms when the top
    of a volcano collapses because of large eruptions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nwm_zmMP0A
    Both shield and composite volcanoes can form features
    called calderas, a huge crater formed by the collapse of the
    volcano when magma rapidly erupts from underneath it.
    SUBMARINE VOLCANOES
    Submarine volcanoes are
    underwater vents or fissures
    in the Earth's surface from
    which magma can erupt.
    Many submarine volcanoes
    are located near areas of
    tectonic plate formation,
    known as mid-ocean ridges.
    The volcanoes at mid-ocean
    ridges alone are estimated to
    account for 75% of the
    magma output on Earth.

    Stupendous Submarine Volcanoes - YouTube


    SUBGLACIAL VOLCANOES
    A subglacial volcano, also
    known as a glaciovolcano,
    is a volcanic form produced
    by subglacial eruptions or
    eruptions beneath the
    surface of a glacier or ice
    sheet which is then melted
    into a lake by the rising lava.
    During the eruption, the heat
    of the lava from the
    subglacial volcano melts the
    overlying ice.
    SUBGLACIAL VOLCANOES

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