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Many have rhyolitic magma, which is high in silica. Magma with higher viscosity and higher gas content is the most explosive when released.
Magma is a hot fluid from deep within the Earth's crust. The set of magma conditions that produce the most explosive eruptions are high viscosity and the presence of dissolved gases.
Felsic magmas that are high in silica content and are highly viscous produce explosive eruptions.
The explosive potential of magma depends more on viscosity gas content than on temperature. Most magmas are at temperature of at least 700 degrees Celcius. Interestingly, the most explosive magmas are the high-silica magmas, which have lower melting temperatures.
If the magma has a high water content, then the volcano will most likely have an explosive eruption. Also, vocanoes can have explosive eruptions if the magma contains a large percentage of silica. Hope this helps!
Many have rhyolitic magma, which is high in silica. Magma with higher viscosity and higher gas content is the most explosive when released.
Magma is a hot fluid from deep within the Earth's crust. The set of magma conditions that produce the most explosive eruptions are high viscosity and the presence of dissolved gases.
Yes. More gas trapped in magma leads to a more explosive eruption. Water vapor is the most abundant gas in magma.
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Felsic magmas that are high in silica content and are highly viscous produce explosive eruptions.
The explosive potential of magma depends more on viscosity gas content than on temperature. Most magmas are at temperature of at least 700 degrees Celcius. Interestingly, the most explosive magmas are the high-silica magmas, which have lower melting temperatures.
If the magma has a high water content, then the volcano will most likely have an explosive eruption. Also, vocanoes can have explosive eruptions if the magma contains a large percentage of silica. Hope this helps!
No. The more basalt the quieter the eruption. Basalt is deep deep material, from down where there are few volatiles to make lava explosive.
This material is most often referred to as magma.
Yes it is high in silica because composite volcanoes are known for being explosive. Composite volcanoes, sometimes referred to as stratovolcanoes, one of Earth's most common type.They form by explosive eruptions of pyroclastic material followed by quieter outpourings of lava. This usually indicates high silica content. High silica makes for thicker magma that can clog up the vent from the volcanoe's last eruption. Which makes the next eruption far more explosive because the magma has to free its self out of the vent, and with tremendous force it succeeds sky rocketing billions of pieces of pyroclastic material out of its vent. (this is known as an explosive eruption.)