#10 Volcanic Regions

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    Recall mid ocean ridges

    What happens as oceanic crust spreads?

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    Mid ocean ridges

    Plates are moving apart Creating area of low pressure which brings up

    higher pressured material

    Magma is generally representative of mantleWhy?

    Recall pillow basalt- lava that solidifies under water and has a pillow-like appearance.

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    Recall subduction zones

    What happens as the oceanic crust moves into the mantle?

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    Subduction zones

    Oceanic crust contains basalt, eroded sediments, and fluids.Heats up at ~100km depth, fluids boil off and rise

    through the mantle and overriding crust.

    Subduction magmas contain recycled material and water (the content which determines volcanic activity)

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    Hotspots-

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    Rising mantle plume of super heated mantle material

    Generally very pure magmas representative of mantle material (although can pick up fluids and continental material)

    Consider Yellowstone (midcontinent) and Hawaii (mid ocean)

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    Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain

    - Increases in ageto the North-west

    - Increases inwater depth

    The plate is movingover the hotspot

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    Volcano forming regions

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    Next time Volcanoes and how natural disastersaffect us

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