Volcano World was one of the first geoscience resources on the Internet. For this exercise you will need a map showing plate boundaries which is a small map or this one which is larger [if you print from the browser, turn the image on its side and reduce the size to about 75% for the best effect), or you can copy the larger figure on the inside cover of the text.
Look at the Update on Current Volcanic Activity. Prepare a table in which you list the 10 most recent volcanic events prior to November 1, 2000. Your final report should include eruptions that occur during the semester (or thereabouts).
Exploding Mountains is a similar sort of exercise that may give you some good ideas.
Location | Composition | Nature of the Eruption | Remarks |
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Under the Nature of the Eruption column tell whether this was an explosive eruption or a gentle flow. Under the Remarks column tell whether the volcano is located at a plate boundary or within a plate. If the volcano occurs at a plate boundary list the kind of boundary.
Locate each of these events with a red circle on your reference map.
Questions
Locate it on your map in orange.
The Table and Map that you prepare will be handed in with your written report as Appendix I.