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What kind of gas came out of the Mount St. Helens when it erupted?
sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide
Is Mount Vesuvius 20 miles high?
No. No mountain on Earth is even close to that height. Mount Vesuvius has an elevation of 4,203 feet, less than a mile. The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, is 29,029 feet or 5.5 miles high. The eruption column of the 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius reach a height of about 20 miles. This was not part of the mountain but a plume of ash and gas.
When did Mount Vesuvius last erupt and what triggered it?
Mount Vesuvius last erupted in March 1944. The eruption was caused by gas-rich magma moving up from the magma chanber beneath the volcano and emerging explosively. More definitive causes are not know for two reasons. First, we did not know as much about volcanoes back then. Second, the people in the area at the time were more preoccupied with fighting World War II than with what was going on beneath a volcano.
What cause the laki volcano to explode?
Laki is a volcano in Iceland that erupted in 1783. It erupted for 8 months and was the cause of death of 20% of Iceland's population. The eruptions were caused by fissures that released sulphurous gas.
How do you compare and contrast mount saint helens and Mount Vesuvius?
Similarities: They are both volcanoes, they are both stratovolcanoes, they both killed people, they both erupted, they both made huge ash clouds, they both made tremors, both had magma with high viscosity
What kind of gas came out of the Mount St. Helens when it erupted?
sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide
Is Mount Vesuvius 20 miles high?
No. No mountain on Earth is even close to that height. Mount Vesuvius has an elevation of 4,203 feet, less than a mile. The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, is 29,029 feet or 5.5 miles high. The eruption column of the 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius reach a height of about 20 miles. This was not part of the mountain but a plume of ash and gas.
When did Mount Vesuvius last erupt and what triggered it?
Mount Vesuvius last erupted in March 1944. The eruption was caused by gas-rich magma moving up from the magma chanber beneath the volcano and emerging explosively. More definitive causes are not know for two reasons. First, we did not know as much about volcanoes back then. Second, the people in the area at the time were more preoccupied with fighting World War II than with what was going on beneath a volcano.
What cause the laki volcano to explode?
Laki is a volcano in Iceland that erupted in 1783. It erupted for 8 months and was the cause of death of 20% of Iceland's population. The eruptions were caused by fissures that released sulphurous gas.
How do you compare and contrast mount saint helens and Mount Vesuvius?
Similarities: They are both volcanoes, they are both stratovolcanoes, they both killed people, they both erupted, they both made huge ash clouds, they both made tremors, both had magma with high viscosity
When did Rainier last erupt?
Mount Ranier (in the Cascades) last "erupted" in 1894. The major collection of research was for a 1981 book that has gone out of print, so dates of the reported eruption are not generally known. According to the title, more than steam and gas was released : Mount Rainier: The Tephra Eruption of 1894 (OCLC 41684547)
What is difference between flammable gas and toxic gas?
Flammable gas will burn. Toxic gas is poisonous. A gas can be toxic, but not flammable, flammable but not toxic, both, or neither.
Why did Mount Vesuvius have so much ash when it erupted?
There are two major factors in how a volcano will erupt: the viscosity of the magma (underground molten rock) and how much gas is in the magma. Viscosity is the resistance of a liquid to flowing. For example syrup is more viscous than water. Magma varies in viscosity, and the magma that forms glowing red lava flows is of the least viscous type. The magma involved in the eruption that buried Pompeii was far more viscous, so it could not flow easily out of the volcano. Gas is what drives the explosive force of an eruption. The gas is trapped in the magma under pressure and is released as the magma nears the surface. The more viscous types of magma usually have more gas. This holds true at Mount Vesuvius. Even more gas was probably added as seawater seeped into the volcano and turned to water vapor. When the highly viscous, gas-rich magma of Vesuvius came out, the exploding gasses blasted it into tiny fragments, called ash, and which remained suspended in enormous ash clouds.
How many people died in mount Cleveland?
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 death
What is one city that was covered by volcanic ash?
Pompeii. The ancient city of Pompeii lay southeast of Naples, Italy. It lay in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, the only active volcano on the European mainland, and its inhabitants were used to rumblings and tremors from the volcano. On August 24 AD 79, Pompeii and the neighbouring city of Herculaneum were buried under a pyroclastic flow, a cloud of superheated gas, ash, and rock erupting from the volcano. Being a popular summer holiday spot, it is estimated that there were about 20,000 inhabitants in Pompeii at the time of the eruption. Immediately following the eruption, those who had not been killed by falling rocks quickly packed to flee. However, clouds of poison gas rolled into the city. Those who were outside died instantly from the gas, while people who were still in their houses died from lack of oxygen. After hundreds of years of lying buried, Herculaneum was rediscovered in 1738, and Pompeii in 1748.
How many people died total from mount Stromboli?
Around 16,000 people died when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Both the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii were absolutely destroyed in this catastrophic eruption.The estimated guess of how many people died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is 15,000-20,000 people.Mt. Vesuvius erupted catastrophically once again in 1631, killed another 6,000 people.They died from Pyroclastic flow which is a fast-moving current of superheated gas (which can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F)) and rock (collectively known as tephra), which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km/h (450 mph). Toxic gasses and suffocation from ash.
When seawater is decomposed what toxic gas is produced?
It produces chlorine as it's toxic gas.
