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When pillow lava touch ocean water how hot do the ocean water turn?
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∙ 15y ago
well actually the water never gets hot
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Pillow basalt originates at the surface of volcanic islands?
False. Basaltic lava sometimes is erupted under water or flows into the ocean. It makes a formation like a pile of pillows on the sea bottom. Pillow lava crystallizes quickly from the outside to the inside of each "pillow." Lava of this type forms only under water. Pillow lavas are found on many mountains throughout the world.
How does pillow basalt form?
Pillow basalt is formed when lava extrudes from the ocean floor - perhaps into a sediment overburden (?) - such that each bolus of lava is separate from the others.
When lava cools under water often forms?
Pillow Lava forms when lava cools underwater. It appears in rounded lumps giving the pillow appearance. Good luck.
Pillow lava is the result of what type of eruption?
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.
Pillow basalts are indicators that the lava was erupted where?
Under water.
Pillow basalt originates at the surface of volcanic islands?
False. Basaltic lava sometimes is erupted under water or flows into the ocean. It makes a formation like a pile of pillows on the sea bottom. Pillow lava crystallizes quickly from the outside to the inside of each "pillow." Lava of this type forms only under water. Pillow lavas are found on many mountains throughout the world.
How does pillow basalt form?
Pillow basalt is formed when lava extrudes from the ocean floor - perhaps into a sediment overburden (?) - such that each bolus of lava is separate from the others.
Describe the appearance of lava flows along the ocean floor?
When a volcano ejects lava from the ocean floor, the lava cools very rapidly. This causes the outside of the lava plume to solidify. Pressure builds inside this lava pillow, as it is usually described, until it breaks through a weak area in the pillow "shell" and forms a new lava pillow. The process repeats until the lava source is exhausted or the pressure wanes.
Where would you expect to find pillow lava in the modern world?
in a volcano Pillow lava forms only when lava emerges from a place that is submerged under water.
When lava cools under water often forms?
Pillow Lava forms when lava cools underwater. It appears in rounded lumps giving the pillow appearance. Good luck.
Pillow lava is the result of what type of eruption?
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.
Pillow basalts are indicators that the lava was erupted where?
Under water.
How hot is pillow lava?
pillow lava is 2500 degrees
What is pillow lava?
Pillow lava is basaltic lava that forms rounded pillow like lumps. It forms when a volcano erupts fairly deep underwater. Lava erupts bu quickly crusts over, creating a bulbous formation. The crust then breaks and more lava spills out, continuing the process.See the link below for a video of pillow lava.
What kind of rock forms when lava cools in the ocean?
igneous rock
How does rising magma and flowing lava create underwater pillow lava?
Because the magma is erupted into the cold water, the outside of the flow quickly cools and solidifies into a hard shell which causes the backside flow to seek a new, less resistant pathway. When the flow is pinched off before re-routing, a bulbous pillow shaped, rapidly cooling blob is formed. Most of the ocean floor laying under layers of sediment and sedimentary rock, is formed from masses of pillow lavas (basalt).
What type of magma forms at mid-ocean ridges?
pillow lava named that because when it cools it looks like pillows.
