How Volcanoes Work And The Impact They Can Have

Volcanoes

Volcanoes are a powerful natural phenomenon, so powerful that our ancestor’s thought them to be the wrath of an angry god. They are created from the shifting crust of our earth, floating on the mantle, displaying incredible force, then going down in history, but volcanoes are like the sharks of natural disasters. Although they can kill, they also have a purpose and a beauty. This paper will be describing how volcanoes work and the impact they can have.

Our Earth can be divided into three basic layers, the core, the mantle, and the crust. The core is the innermost part of the Earth, approximately 3000 kilometers or 1864 miles below the surface, made up of an iron-nickel alloy, which becomes a solid at the very center due to the enormous

As the plate’s edge sinks under the magma, it melts. The new magma rises, pushing its way through the plate above it, creating a volcano.

One of the most famous volcanoes is the mountain that destroyed Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius. Pompeii was a flourishing roman city, located near the Bay of Naples in Italy, until in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and completely buried the city in volcanic ash. Nearly two thousand years later, archeologists discovered the cities remains, and the remains of some of the two thousand people who had been killed during the eruption. They’re skeletons’ found frozen where they had been as they died, or in some cases, just gaps in the ash where they’re bodies had been before they were disintegrated.

However, volcanoes are not just forces of destruction. The beautiful islands of Hawaii were made of magma seeping out of the crust into the ocean. As the lava cooled and turned into solid stone it began to build up, until it broke the surface of the water creating an island. Once the rock was broken up by pioneer plants, the soil was rich and to this day supports the tropical flowers and trees that Hawaii is famous