Could you give me information on Shield Volcanoes?
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This from the USGS has all the answers you are looking for:\nhttp://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/ShieldVolcano.html\n"Volcanoes with broad, gentle slopes and built by the eruption of fluid basalt lava are called shield volcanoes. Basalt lava tends to build enormous, low-angle cones because it flows across the ground easily and can form lava tubes that enable lava to flow tens of kilometers from an erupting vent with very little cooling. The largest volcanoes on Earth are shield volcanoes. The name comes from a perceived resemblance to the shape of a warrior's shield."\nExamples of shield volcanoes are the volcanoes in the Hawaiian island chain, including Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Haleakala, etc.\nHope this is helpful :-)
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See for yourself:\n\nhttp://www.solcomhouse.com/volcano.htm\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/group10_new.html\nhttp://www.exn.ca/volcanoes/causes.cfm\nhttp://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/AboutVolcanoes/where_do_volcanoes_occur.html\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/10136/volcano/volctq.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano\n\nMore random links I keep at hand for God knows what uses.
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http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/wis/teachers/dtewhey/webquest/nature/images/Volcano%20diagram.bmp\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/volcano/gifs/volcano_bw.GIF\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/volcano/labelvolcano.shtml (you can lable this and print it)\n\nhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vw_hyperexchange/parts.html
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Here ya go : \nhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_fuji.html
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Hi Bob. There is plenty of information on Mt St Helens on the internet, try an encyclopaedia first.\nEveryone here is happy to help you when you need it, but this is a project you shouldn't have trouble doing on your own.\nStart here:\nhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/\n(addresses with "edu" in the title are better for projects because this indicaties it is an educational institutions' web page.)\nYou'll find useful links on that page, like this one:\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/group9_new.html\n(see 83)
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Mt. Etna's eruptions, while obscuring visibility in the area surrounding the volcano, were captured by cameras on board the Terra and SeaWiFs satellites in recent days.\n\nThe eruption opened six vents in the mountain, releasing a cloud of ash stretching southeastward over the Mediterranean Sea, though the volatile mountain's lava flows have appeared to slowed.\n\nA new fissure cracked open at a height of 2,700 yards (2,470 meters) on the eastern side of the volcano, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, weakening the main lava flow that threatened the village of Nicolosi, a community of 5,000 people. \n\nThe magma pouring out of the new fissure, one of a half-dozen that have burst open on the almost 11,000-foot (3,350-meter) mountain, was heading toward the uninhabited Valle del Bove valley. \n\n"There are very slight signals that the eruption activity is diminishing. I am cautiously optimistic,'' said Alberto Di Pace, prefect of Catania, a city at the base of the volcano. \n\nBut experts say the volcano is highly unpredictable, making it extremely difficult to tell whether the eruptions will stop soon. In the past 20 days there have been more than 2,500 tremors under the mountain, with no signs of any let-up. \n\nCatania's international airport, which was shut for a second time on Monday as thick layers of volcanic ash covered the runway, was re-opened at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday. \n\nFor a week, Europe's most active volcano has been billowing huge clouds of smoke and black ash, and spitting rivers of lava, leading the government to declare a state of emergency. \n\nThe lava flow approaching Nicolosi has almost stopped as it pools in a shallow basin some 2.5 miles above the village. \n\nOn Sunday, the community organized a religious procession to pray that the flow be diverted or stopped. \n\nLegend has it that in 1886 the local archbishop managed to divert a wave of boiling magma descending on the village by brandishing before it a statue of Saint Anthony. \n\nThe magma has already damaged ski lifts dotting the volcano's slopes and civil protection teams were trying to save the ones left intact. \n\nMount Etna is a popular winter resort, but tourism officials say snow is unlikely to settle this winter because of the extreme heat of the lava. \n\nThe last time Etna posed a threat was in 1992 when lava streams headed toward Zafferana, a town of 7,000 people on Etna's lower slopes. The Italian military had to use controlled explosions to divert the flow.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_10_most_deadly_Volcanic_Eruptions\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes
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http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
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here are whole bunch of important info\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilauea\n\na vedio of lava flowing\nhttp://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/volcanoes/assets/multimedia/kilauea.mov?mii=1
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Go here:\n\nhttp://www.fema.gov/kids/volcano.htm
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try this:\nhttp://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
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Check out all the links I listed, you should enjoy...\n\nA volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, usually molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time.\n\nVolcanoes are generally found where two to three tectonic plates pull apart or are coming together. A mid-oceanic ridge, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "divergent tectonic plates" pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by "convergent tectonic plates" coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another (like the San Andreas fault). Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called "non-hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes).\n\nFinally, volcanoes can be caused by "mantle plumes," so-called "hotspots;" these hotspots can occur far from plate boundaries, such as the Hawaiian Islands. Interestingly, hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons.
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aqua,fuego,ategenago are the 3 famous volcanoes. guatemala has 33 volcanoes.
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Yahoo search on images of volcanos:\nhttp://img.search.yahoo.com/search/images?fr=slv2-&ei=UTF-8&p=volcano
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Composite volcanoes/ strato volcanoe.\n\nSome of the Earth's grandest mountains are composite volcanoes--sometimes called stratovolcanoes. They are typically steep-sided, symmetrical cones of large dimension built of alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, cinders, blocks, and bombs and may rise as much as 8,000 feet above their bases. Some of the most conspicuous and beautiful mountains in the world are composite volcanoes, including Mount Fuji in Japan, Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador, Mount Shasta in California, Mount Hood in Oregon, and Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier in Washington.\n\n\n**Here is a personal tip my teacher taught us..depending on the plate it's sitting on and the boundary you will know how the plates strike and collide ...in the case of helen think of yr two hands being forced together straight on max pressure eventually your fingers begin to cave and slide up ward together... it looks olmost pointy and cone shaped right? just like St. Helen... This is assuming you know about plates and faults ....Hopefully you do..if bot disregard..
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Here you go:\n\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/
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Volcanoes are a result of the Earth trying to lose its internal heat. If the Earth's interior was cold, there would be no volcanoes. So how does a volcano form hey.\n\nWell, deep inside Earth, between the molten iron core and the thin crust at the surface, there is the mantle, a large layer of rock that is largely solid, but flows like plastic. When, for various reasons, rock from the mantle melts, it sometimes moves to the Earth’s surface through weak spots in the crust, releasing heat, gasses, and rock, what do you get when you put all this together..... you got it,  a volcanic eruption.\n\nVolcanoes erupt because magma is less dense than the solid rocks surrounding it in the mantle of the earth. As it nears the surface, gases expand and boil out of the rock, and this force of explosion propels lava from the vent. \n\nVolcanoes can occur by themselves or in belts and chains. The location of these volcanoes splits them into three groups. Rift volcanoes, subduction volcanoes, and hot spot volcanoes. This has a lot to do with plate tectonics, or moving of the segments of the earth's lithosphere. \n\n· Rift volcanoes occur where the plates are moving away from each other. They fill the separations with lava flows, creating new sea floor and mountain ridges beneath the waves. \n\n· Subduction volcanoes form where the plates collide and slide over each other. They create ridges and peaks. The Ring of Fire is a famous chain of volcanoes that rim the Pacific Ocean. About 1,000 live subduction volcanoes occur in this ring, and in any one-year, approximately 40 will be in some state of eruption. The Ring of Fire is composed of stratovolcanoes, which normally occur in chains, and account for over 95% of the world's active volcanoes.\n\nHot spot volcanoes are the exception to the rule of volcanoes occurring along plate margins. There are constant zones of magma within the earth in some places beneath the plates. The magma pierces through the plate. As time passes and the plates move, new volcanoes appear, and the extinct volcanoes are carried away with the drift of the plates. The common forms of hot spot volcanoes are shield volcanoes, like Mauna Loa of the Hawaiian Islands.\n\nMany factors determine the location, appearance, and amount of activity of each volcano. The location and consistency of magma determine the type of explosion, which determine the type of volcano that is formed. \n\nVolcanoes are both facinating and deadly examples of natures power. They are natural wonders that should be not just appreciated, but studied aswell. \n\nSorry this is long its just I studied volcanoes at uni and just find them fascinating.