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Lecture Outlines PowerPoint
Chapter 9
Earth Science 11e
Tarbuck/Lutgens
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Earth Science, 11e
Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity
Chapter 9
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Volcanic eruptions
v Factors that determine the violence of an eruption • Composition of the magma • Temperature of the magma • Dissolved gases in the magma
v Viscosity of magma • Viscosity is a measure of a material's resistance
to flow
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Volcanic eruptions
v Viscosity of magma • Factors affecting viscosity
• Temperature (hotter magmas are less viscous) • Composition (silica content)
• High silica – high viscosity (e.g., rhyolitic lava) • Low silica – more fluid (e.g., basaltic lava)
• Dissolved gases (volatiles) • Mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide • Gases expand near the surface
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Volcanic eruptions
v Viscosity of magma • Factors affecting viscosity
• Dissolved gases (volatiles) • Provide the force to extrude lava • Violence of an eruption is related to how easily
gases escape from magma • Easy escape from fluid magma • Viscous magma produces a more violent
eruption
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Materials associated with volcanic eruptions
v Lava flows • Basaltic lavas are more fluid • Types of lava
• Pahoehoe lava (resembles braids in ropes) • Aa lava (rough, jagged blocks)
v Gases • One to five percent of magma by weight • Mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide
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A Pahoehoe lava flow
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A typical aa flow
Figure 9.5 B
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Materials associated with volcanic eruptions
v Pyroclastic materials • "Fire fragments" • Types of pyroclastic material
• Ash and dust – fine, glassy fragments • Pumice – from "frothy" lava • Lapilli – "walnut" size • Cinders – "pea-sized" • Particles larger than lapilli
• Blocks – hardened lava • Bombs – ejected as hot lava
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A volcanic bomb
Bomb is approximately 10 cm long
Figure 9.6
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Volcanoes
v General features • Conduit, or pipe carries gas-rich magma to the
surface • Vent, the surface opening (connected to the
magma chamber via a pipe) • Crater
• Steep-walled depression at the summit • Caldera (a summit depression greater than 1 km
diameter)
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Volcanoes
v General features • Parasitic cones • Fumaroles
v Types of volcanoes • Shield volcano
• Broad, slightly domed • Primarily made of basaltic (fluid) lava • Generally large size • e.g., Mauna Loa in Hawaii
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Shield volcano
Figure 9.8
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Volcanoes
v Types of volcanoes • Cinder cone
• Built from ejected lava fragments • Steep slope angle • Rather small size • Frequently occur in groups
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Cinder cone
Figure 9.11
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Volcanoes
v Types of volcanoes • Composite cone (or stratovolcano)
• Most are adjacent to the Pacific Ocean (e.g., Mt. Rainier)
• Large size • Interbedded lavas and pyroclastics • Most violent type of activity
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Composite volcano
Figure 9.7
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Mt. St. Helens – a typical composite volcano
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Mt. St. Helens following the 1980 eruption
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A size comparison of the three types of volcanoes
Figure 9.9
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Volcanoes
v Types of volcanoes • Composite cone (or stratovolcano)
• Often produce nuée ardente • Fiery pyroclastic flow made of hot gases infused
with ash • Flows down sides of a volcano at speeds up to
200 km (125 miles) per hour • May produce a lahar - volcanic mudflow
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A nueé ardente on Mt. St. Helens
Figure 9.14
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A lahar along the Toutle River near Mt. St. Helens
Figure 9.16
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Other volcanic landforms
v Calderas • Steep walled depression at the summit • Formed by collapse • Nearly circular • Size exceeds one kilometer in diameter
v Fissure eruptions and lava plateaus • Fluid basaltic lava extruded from crustal
fractures called fissures • e.g., Columbia Plateau
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Crater Lake, Oregon is a good example of a caldera
Figure 9.17
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Crater Lake in Oregon
Figure 9.18
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The Columbia River basalts
Figure 9.19
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Other volcanic landforms
v Volcanic pipes and necks • Pipes are short conduits that connect a magma
chamber to the surface • Volcanic necks (e.g., Ship Rock, New Mexico)
are resistant vents left standing after erosion has removed the volcanic cone
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Formation of a volcanic neck
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Intrusive igneous activity
v Most magma is emplaced at depth v An underground igneous body is called a
pluton v Plutons are classified according to
• Shape • Tabular (sheetlike) • Massive
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Intrusive igneous activity
v Plutons are classified according to • Orientation with respect to the host
(surrounding) rock • Discordant – cuts across existing structures • Concordant – parallel to features such as
sedimentary strata
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Intrusive igneous activity
v Types of igneous intrusive features • Dike, a tabular, discordant pluton • Sill, a tabular, concordant pluton
• e.g., Palisades Sill, NY • Resemble buried lava flows • May exhibit columnar joints
• Laccolith • Similar to a sill
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Intrusive igneous structures exposed by erosion
Figure 9.22 B
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A sill in the Salt River Canyon, Arizona
Figure 9.23
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Intrusive igneous activity
v Types of igneous intrusive features • Laccolith
• Lens shaped mass • Arches overlying strata upward
• Batholith • Largest intrusive body • Often occur in groups • Surface exposure 100+ square kilometers (smaller
bodies are termed stocks) • Frequently form the cores of mountains
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A batholith exposed by erosion
Figure 9.22 c
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Origin of magma
v Magma originates when essentially solid rock, located in the crust and upper mantle, melts
v Factors that influence the generation of magma from solid rock • Role of heat
• Earth’s natural temperature increases with depth (geothermal gradient) is not sufficient to melt rock at the lower crust and upper mantle
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Origin of magma
v Factors that influence the generation of magma from solid rock • Role of heat
• Additional heat is generated by • Friction in subduction zones • Crustal rocks heated during subduction • Rising, hot mantle rocks
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Origin of magma
v Factors that influence the generation of magma from solid rock • Role of pressure
• Increase in confining pressure causes an increase in melting temperature
• Drop in confining pressure can cause decompression melting
• Lowers the melting temperature • Occurs when rock ascends
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Origin of magma
v Factors that influence the generation of magma from solid rock • Role of volatiles
• Primarily water • Cause rock to melt at a lower temperature • Play an important role in subducting ocean plates
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Origin of magma
v Factors that influence the generation of magma from solid rock • Partial melting
• Igneous rocks are mixtures of minerals • Melting occurs over a range of temperatures • Produces a magma with a higher silica content than
the original rock
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Plate tectonics and igneous activity
v Global distribution of igneous activity is not random • Most volcanoes are located on the margins of
the ocean basins (intermediate, andesitic composition)
• Second group is confined to the deep ocean basins (basaltic lavas)
• Third group includes those found in the interiors of continents
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Locations of some of Earth’s major volcanoes
Figure 9.28
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Plate tectonics and igneous activity
v Plate motions provide the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt to form magma • Convergent plate boundaries
• Descending plate partially melts • Magma slowly rises upward • Rising magma can form
• Volcanic island arcs in an ocean (Aleutian Islands)
• Continental volcanic arcs (Andes Mountains)
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Plate tectonics and igneous activity
v Plate motions provide the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt to form magma • Divergent plate boundaries
• The greatest volume of volcanic rock is produced along the oceanic ridge system
• Lithosphere pulls apart • Less pressure on underlying rocks • Partial melting occurs • Large quantities of fluid basaltic magma are
produced
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Plate tectonics and igneous activity
v Plate motions provide the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt to form magma • Intraplate igneous activity
• Activity within a rigid plate • Plumes of hot mantle material rise • Form localized volcanic regions called hot spots • Examples include the Hawaiian Islands and the
Columbia River Plateau in the northwestern United States
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