tectonics: volcanoes - case studies and pictures

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A collection of images of the wonderful and weird variety of volcanoes across the globe, most of these form part of a mini case study that you should have some sort of anecdotal evidence for use in an essay.

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Page 1: Tectonics: Volcanoes - Case Studies and Pictures

Volcanoes

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The Rift Valley

Chain of spatter cones (foreground) from a linear eruption between Erta Ale and Hayli Gubbi. Note fault scarp parallel and behind the alignment.

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Ol Doinyo Lengai

The cone of Lengai (crowned by white lava overflows) stands in the middle of Rift Valley (Rift west scarp on the right).

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The typical aa front (about 5cm thick) of a lava flow coming out from the lava lake T49E.

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Lengai at Night

Meduse's Hairs born from the lava lake? Volcanologists call them «Intestinal Flows»: they are due to magma differentiation.

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Nyiragongo

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Erta Ale

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Pa Hoe Hoe at Erta Ale

Marco has discovered that Pelee is blonde: Her heir is fair, not black (as in Hawaii), on Erta Ale!

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Montserrat

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Dallol

When a pond dries out strange salt "bushes" rising from the bottom indicate the former water level.

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Dallol Lake

Spectacularly green-coloured ponds below some active salt hornitos.

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Sublimation from fumaroles causes salt to deposit in some strange shapes like branches in the wind.

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Dozens of hornitos are active within a small area, together creating a symphony of whistles and puffing.

An active hornito ejects water with plenty of minerals which form deposits mimicking a head covered by grey hair.

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Krakatoa

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Yellowstone

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Stromboli

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Pamukkale

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Pelee

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