It travels as a liquid, in response to gravity and obstructions, until friction or solidification overcome the force of gravity.
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It travels through a "Pipe" and explodes out the "Vent", or possibly the "Side Vent", and another world for the hole at the top is the Crater.
The phenomenon is called lava tube formation, where molten lava flows through a natural tunnel-like structure underground. Lava travels through these tubes, allowing it to move further away from the volcanic vent.
The tunnel through which lava travels to reach the surface of a volcano is called a volcanic conduit. It is a passage that connects the magma chamber below the volcano to the vent at the surface. The lava moves through this conduit under pressure before erupting onto the surface.
Yes, there is a difference between lava and lava flow. Lava is the molten rock beneath the Earth's surface, while lava flow refers to the movement of lava as it travels down a volcano or hillside. Lava flow is the result of the eruption of molten rock, which can vary in speed and direction.
Magma flows for a long period of time but named lava when out of the ground. It depends how fast the lava is travels, but you can usually run from it:)
The closest match to this is a pyroclastic flow, but it isn't exactly lava: it is a cloud of hot ash, rock, and gas.
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first lava flows out of several long cracks in an area. the thin runny lava travels far before cooling and solidifying. again and again floods of lava flow on top of earlier floods. After millions of years these layers of lava can form high plateaus!
Magma is the substance inside volcanoes. If the melted igneous rocks are inside a volcano, it is called magma. When the substance exits the volcano, it is called lava. When you see fire, that is when a lava flow travels down a mountain and reacts with other mediums such as houses.
The lava structures of a'a and pahoehoe indicate the viscosity (resistance to flow) and temperature of the lava as it was erupting. The pahoehoe structures form when the lava is more fluid and hotter and a thin crust is able to congeal before deformation by the heat of the interior of the flow. The a'a structures form when the lava is slightly cooler and less fluid as it travels downslope. A pahoehoe-forming lava can cool and become an a'a lava as it travels downslope, losing heat and becoming more viscous (less fluid). It doesn't so much tell us about the eruption itself as it tells us about the temperature and viscosity of the lava.
A shield volcano is a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows. Shield volcanos usually come from highly fluid lava that erupts, which travels farther than lava erupted from stratovolcanos.