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…People in Auckland have modified the Volcanic Landscape quite dramatically. A Volcanic landscape is a space of land that has Volcanoes on it. There have been many changes first the Moiré changed the land, then when Europeans came the also changed…

…. There are different kinds of mountains - Volcanic, Folded, Fault-block, and Dome mountains. Volcanic mountains are formed when magma comes up through cracks in the Earth’s crust and explodes out lava and ash. The Hawaiian volcanoes, Mt. Hood, Mt. Etna, Vesuvius…

…Throughout the world, there are many forces of nature, which contain massive destructive power. At any given point in time, somewhere on the globe, there can be earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, heatwaves or even volcanic eruptions, to name just…

…exciting discoveries made by the Voyager spacecraft was the presence of active erupting volcanoes on Io." (Helicon). It was discovered that Io was the most volcanically active planet in the solar system, even more active than the Earth…

…Empire it was a desired place for the wealthy to build summer villas or homes. Destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Pompeii lay buried beneath layers of volcanic debris for more than 1700 years before being discovered by a farmer in the late…

…to be giving birth to both humans and animals. The wall paintings with their geometric designs also depict groups of people hunting animals, the flesh of headless humans being devoured by giant vultures and what appears to be a volcanic eruption. Among…

…buried in the ash, done by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed to no later than 1600 BC. Being that this was one of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history, it almost certainly caused worldwide cooling which would, in turn, affect…

…equates to a natural disaster. They are nothing else but extreme environmental events that impact human activities. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions are the most frequents threats, as well as flooding, tornadoes, and droughts, which…

…or how small they erupt at. They cause the highest amount of deaths and the greatest amount of damage. Of the two major types of Volcanoes, andestic and basaltic, the two typical volcanoes begin life when a mass of low-density magma forces its way…

…Basalt Floods Millions of years ago, lava flows poured molten rock over huge areas of the world. These eruptions, known as basalt floods, hurled noxious gases fro Earth's interior into the atmosphere. Toxic clouds ravaged the environment and may…