Super Volcanoes
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Super VolcanoesWhat are they?
How are they treated?What if they went off?
What are Super Volcanoes?
General InformationSuper Volcanoes are made up of the same components as regular volcanos.• Magma rising to the top hardening as lava on
the outsides forming the volcano.The major difference is a super volcano eruption is much more violent and deadly and has a lot of pressure build up.
General Information Cont.
Probably the most well know is the one in Yellowstone
National Park which had its last eruption over 640,000
years ago.
There are only a handful of super volcanoes on the earth.
The other most well know super volcano was Toba in Sumatra and it had erupted over 74,000 years ago
CalderasCalderas can form after the
eruption of super volcanoes.They are typically land that
has sunken in due to the eruption of a volcano but can still remain volatile.• Both Toba and Yellowstone volcanoes
are calderas due to the eruption by both.
How Do We Treat Super Volcanoes?
How Do We View Super Volcanoes?
• Currently there is no efforts being made to locate and prevent a super volcano eruption.• We treat them as a
recreation.• We enjoy the environment
they create.• Benefit from the energy
they produce
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Yellowstone National Park• Location:
• 44°27′38″N 110°49′41″W (Old Faithful)• Place:
• 67 species of mammals• Approximately 1,150 species of native vascular
plants• 26 associated American Indian tribes
• Region:• Northeast section of the American Rocky
Mountain Range• Movement:
• 3,447,729 people visited in 2012• Human / Environment Interaction:
• A designated World Heritage Site and designated Biosphere Reserve
Lake Toba• Location:
• 2.6845°N 98.8756°E• Place:
• Most of the people who live around Lake Toba are ethnically Bataks
• Region:• Northern Sumatra
• Movement:• Main mode of transportation is:
1. Boat2. Bike3. Motorcycle
• Human / Environment Interaction:• The lake drains east through the Asahan River into
the Strait of Malacca; along the Asahan River several major hydroelectric projects were completed in the 1980s to supply power for industrialization of the lesser-developed areas of northern Sumatra
Lake Taupo
• Location:• 38°49′S 175°55′E
• Place:• Occupied by the Maori people
• Region:• South Pacific
• Movement:• The Maori landed on the island about 700
years ago.• Human / Environment Interaction:
• Lake Taupo's eruption was so huge, ash has been found in ice cores drilled in Greenland.
What If They Went Off?
• While all volcanoes are quite explosive and deadly the only way to call a volcano super or not is by how much ash and debris they expel.
• Volcanologists use the VEI (Volcanic Explosivity Index) to determine whether or not the volcano is super or not. • Level 0- Level 2 are quite often small if
anything like Hawaii’s, then for two levels after that they get more violent and explosive until they hit Level 7 and 8 those are the Super Volcanoes.
Where are they?
There are several Super Volcanos in the world currently. We are starting with the Yellowstone Caldara, the Long Valley Caldara in California, and Lake Toba to name some famous ones.
Super Volcano used eruptionIt’s super effective!!• We know of the effects that Super Volcanoes have on the world
because of several facts; how far and deep ash levels in relation to the volcano, using ice cores to determine how much ash was in the air and for how long.• All of the effects from Yellowstone blowing would be
devastating to say at the least, ash smothering plants and buildings, covering the sun for years, and possible starting an ice age (not sure for how long.) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1bg_Yf0T4• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SulM31nqaKw
References
BBC. Super Volcanoes. March 2004. Web. 30 November 2013.Geology.com. Calderas. 2013. Web. 30 November 2013.Gourley, B.. N.p.. Web. 11 Dec 2013.
<http://yellowstone.net/intro/fastfacts/>. N.p.. Web. 11 Dec 2013.
<http://www.newzealand.com/travel/media/topic-index/nz-regions/taupo.cfm>. • http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/VEI.html• http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_49.html
#supervolcano• http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long_valley/• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/supervolcanoes.shtml