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Is kilauea high in silica

Updated: 8/20/2019

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No. Kilauea erupts low-silica lava.

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Does kilauea have a high or low silica content?

Kilauea erupts low-silica lava.

Does mt.st.helens have a high or low silica content?

Because Mount Rainier is a Strato Volcano it has both quiet and explosive eruptions. Explosive(pyroclastic) flows have a high silica level. Quiet have low silica levels. The more silica the thicker the magma.

What is the silica content of magma?

Mt. Etna is a stratovolcano like Krakatoa and Mt. Vesuvius, therefore it has a high silica content. Though lava with a high silica content does not tend to travel very far away from the source; it can be a double edged sword as magma with a high silica content tends to trap gasses until it reaches a bursting point, ending in a massive eruption.

How can the composition of magma affect the way volcano erupts?

If the composition of the magma is high in silica, the eruption will be explosive. The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens was an explosive eruption. If the composition of the magma is low in silica, it will produce a quiet eruption. The eruption(s) of Mt. Kilauea are quiet eruptions.

Does Hawaii experience effusive or explosive eruptions?

Occasionally, yes. Most of Kilauea's eruptions are effusive, however.

How does magma composition and the resulting eruption affect the form of a volcano?

What type of lava does mt hood have high silica or low silica?

Mount Hood has high silica levels so the lava is felsic (Mt. Hood's silica values are as high as 64%).

Which flows easier high silica magna or low silica magna?

High silica magma is more viscous (sticky) than low silica magma, so low silica magma lows easier.

Is salt high or low in silica?

Salt does not contain silica.

Does mount erebus have high silica or low silica?

low

Does AAA have high silica?

no it has a generally low amount of silica.

Does Mount Shasta have high silica?

Yes it is low in silica

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