SIO 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pressure Cooking, Deccan Traps, Magma Chamber

• School: UCSD
• Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Course: SIO 15
• Professor: Gabi Laske

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Pinatubo (philippines) is very different from that of the hawaii are typically explosive and very violent, the ones on hawaiian are peaceful and, in f. Kilauea started with spectacular lava fountains at pu"u o"o, one of its vents, and is still g. This lecture explains why we find volcanoes at some places and not others and why so: case studies. Lectures 8-10 are accompanied by several case studies. The case studies only give examples and the list is by no means complete. These case studies do not imply that a particular feature (e. g. mud flows/lahars) is observed only at a particular volcano or a particular eruption. In fact, most eruptions exhibit a combination of these: the two principal types of volcanoes and styles of. Volcanism: we typically distinguish between two main types of volcanoes (shield and strato volcano) and two styles of volcanism (effusive and explosive): shield volcanoes (e. g. iceland, hawaii, mt.