Volcanoe's
Parts
Sill
Flank
Summit
Dike
Conduit
Resevoir
Vent
Throat
Crater
Base
Lava
Hazards
Gas
- Sulfur Dioxide gas creates air pollution that irritates skin, nose, throat, and eyes
- Carbon Dioxide is so concentrated that it kills animals and humans
- Acid rain that some times takes the form of Hydrochloric acid
Lahars
- hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments, often resembles a flow of concrete
- hundreds of meters wide, tens of meters deep
- flows at several tens of meters a second (too fast to outrun)
Landslides
- large rocks or debris falling rapidly downhill
- if the landslide contains enough water it will transform into a Lahar
Lava flows
- lava thats erupted
during non explosive periods
- can travel up to 10 km / hour
- can result in lahars
Pyroclastic Flows
- high density mixtures of hot, dry rock fragments and hot gases that move at......
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