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Pillow lava is formed from a relatively low effusion rate. It erupts from either an underwater vent (opening in which gas and other volcanic material can pass) lava flowing into the ocean.
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What Type of Lava usually flows out of oceanic volcanoes?
mafic lava
What type of scientists most likely to study the cooling of lava after a volcanic eruption?
A vulcanologist is most likely to study the cooling of lava after a volcanic eruption
What type of eruptions does Mt Pinatubo have and what causes the eruption to be violent or non-violent?
what causes a eruption to be liolent is the type of lava -felsic lava is non-violent -mafic lava is violent
What shoots out of a volcano during an eruption?
It depends on the type of eruption. Some will erupt lava or a mixture of lava and gas. Others will erupt gas, ash, and pumice.
What type of lava erupts underwater and takes the form of round lumps?
it is called pillow
Describe pillow lava?
Because it solidifies outside the surface of the earth, it is an extrusive igneous rock.
What type of lava erupts from oceanic vents and quickly cools in the water?
That would be the result of a submarine volcano. Pillow lava is a common type of lava that submarine volcanoes produce.
What Type of Lava usually flows out of oceanic volcanoes?
mafic lava
What type of magma does Kilauea have?
pillow lava
Which type of lava is thin and fast-flowing?
pillow
What type of eruption does composite volcano have?
The type of eruption that a composite volcano has is lava flow with cinders and bombs in an explosive eruption
Type of lava that erupts underwater and takes the form of round lumps?
Pillow lava
What are the differences between pahoehoe and AA What kind of eruption produces these type of lava?
The differences are that Pahoehoe produces fast moving lava; Aa produces slower moving lava. The kind of eruption that produces these types of lava is a quiet eruption.
What type of scientists most likely to study the cooling of lava after a volcanic eruption?
A vulcanologist is most likely to study the cooling of lava after a volcanic eruption
What type of eruptions does Mt Pinatubo have and what causes the eruption to be violent or non-violent?
what causes a eruption to be liolent is the type of lava -felsic lava is non-violent -mafic lava is violent
What shoots out of a volcano during an eruption?
It depends on the type of eruption. Some will erupt lava or a mixture of lava and gas. Others will erupt gas, ash, and pumice.
Which type of lava does mount Eyjafjallajokull have?
probably basaltic lava because the 2010 eruption was very explosive
