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What factors determine the force of a volcano eruption?
Factors that determine the force of an eruption are magma viscosity and gas content.
What factors determines the force of a volcano?
The force of a volcanic eruption is affected by many factors. They include, viscosity of the magma, its temperature, amount of gas content, and the size of the magma reservoir.
What type of volcanic eruption depends on the amount of gases and the composition?
The type of volcanic eruption depends on the amount of gases and the composition of magma. In addition to the composition of the magma, the volcanic eruption depends on the ration of sulfur, carbon dioxide, and water the magma contains.
How can a volcanic eruption affect the sun?
A volcanic eruption here on Earth can not affect the Sun. However, a volcanic eruption here on Earth can put particles of ash and some volcanic gases into the atmosphere that affects the transparency of Earth's atmosphere to sunlight. With the ash content the skies near the volcano go dark during the day and with the gases (especially sulfur oxides) the amount of cloud cover increases causing sunlight to be reflected and the air to cool.
What are the two factors that affect the explosiveness of a a volcanic eruption?
There are two factors that determine how explosive a volcano is. The two factors are the amount of gas that is present in the lava and how easy or difficult that gas can be released into the atmosphere.
Do volcanoes always produce lava flows?
No. Lava flow in a volcanic eruption is a factor of the temperature, chemistry, and amount of trapped gas in the lava. Highly viscous, felsic, gas charged magmas tend to explode upon eruption. Low viscosity, basaltic magmas tend to flow upon eruption.
What is the relationship between the amount of gases in magma and the explosiveness a volcanic eruption?
The more gases, water vapor and silica there is in magma the bigger the explosiveness of a volcanic eruption.
What are the factors affecting volcanic eruption?
How full the magma chamber is and the amount of gas that is in the volcano.
What are 3 substances that affect the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions?
Amount of dissolved gasses in a liquid, the silica content, and the viscosity of the magma.
Where is The greatest amount of volcanic material is produced at?
The greatest volume of volcanic material is produced by fissure eruptions.
How do scientists classify volcano eruptions?
Volcanic eruptions are classified on the Volcanic Explosivity index, which is based on parameters such as the amount of material erupted and the height of the eruption column.
Identify and explain the 3 factors that effect the force of a volcanic eruption?
The silica content effects the force of a volcanic eruption because magma with a lot of silica is thicker and magma with less silica is thinner. The amount of dissolved gases in magma effects the force of a volcanic eruption because the less gas in the magma, the less pressure will be inside the volcano. The temperature of the magma effects the force of a volcanic eruption because the hotter the magma, the more runny it is.
