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Volcanic ash provides food for the soil around volcanoes which helps us grow plants to eat. You can find some more information about different types of volcanoes here and here. Read more: Curious Kids: Do most volcanologists die from getting too close to volcanoes? Hello, curious kids! Ask an adult to send your question to us. They can:.
Please tell us your name, age, and which city you live in. You can send an audio recording of your question too, if you want. Send as many questions as you like! Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Due to its liquefied state, the magma is less dense than the rock above it and begins to rise. Simultaneously water vapour escapes as bubbles, increasing the relative density of the carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide.
Over time these gases expand to times their original size, increasing the pressure on the chamber lid to such an extent that an eruption occurs. This is similar to when you shake a soft drink and it explodes when opening the lid — by shaking it you are separating carbon dioxide molecules, causing a build-up of gas and pressure. Typically, it will also form pyroclastic clouds: cascades of hot ash, gas and molten rock fragments, which are around degrees Celsius and travel around kilometres per hour.
The fundamental concept of an eruption is that an increase in pressure on the chamber lid causes the magma to be released from beneath it. However, there are variances in the cause of this magma movement and the type of eruption generated. These can either spread apart and leave a gap in the surface, or they can push underneath one another — a process called subduction. When the plates separate, magma rises slowly in order to fill the gap through a gentle explosion of thin basaltic lava, which is at temperatures from to degrees Celsius.
However, when one plate pushes underneath the other, this forces molten rock, sediment and seawater down into the magma chamber. The rock and sediment are melted into fresh magma, and eventually overfill the chamber until it erupts, releasing sticky and thick andesitic lava, at temperatures from to degrees Celsius. Decreasing temperatures can cause old magma to crystalise and sink to the bottom of the chamber, forcing fresh liquefied magma up and out — similar to what happens when a brick is dropped in a bucket of water.
A decrease in external pressure on the magma chamber may also allow for an eruption by minimising its ability to hold back increasing pressures from the inside. This is often caused by natural events, such as typhoons, that decrease rock density, or by glacial melting on top of the chamber lid, which alters molten rock composition.
The volcanoes found in the Hawaiian islands are of this sort. Ultimately, the size of an eruption will depend on the thickness of the magma, the density of gases it contains and the amount of new magma being pushed into the magma chamber.
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