Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador, erupting

Eruptions of Tunguragua volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes in 1999, shot from the evacuation camp "Ojos de Volcan" Many clips from this video can be purchased at: http://ww3.osf.co.uk/ftg_frameset.html Other natural history video clips by Morley Read can be obtained at: https://www.pond5.com/artist/atelopus?ref=atelopus

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[brillowpad1]

Cool I pretend to be no expert, I just wanted to sound smart because of Geology class

[seapeddler]

@brillowpad1 Rocks subduct and are remelted which also releases gases, which are compressed. If you go to Vesuvius or any volcano with a central lava lake, you don't get an eruption without the carbon dioxide/methane etc.compression. Lava can't reach the summit of a volcano without the accompanying gas compression. Lava itself is not loud, but the explosion of gases is ! If I'm wrong, I accept my stupidity. Earths' interior furnace is kept hot by Birkland currents from Sun.

[seapeddler]

@brillowpad1 What the heck does " nah homie " mean? Are volcanos homosexual? As for Hawaii, it sits at 19.5 deg from the equator, and hyper-dimensional physics predicts that on every sphere, subatomic particles included, there is an anomaly at 19.5 deg. On Jupiter it is the Great Red Spot. Geometrically speaking, the earth is a crystalline dodecahedron superimposed upon an icosahedron. Flood basalt lava erupts for millions of yrs. (Siberian Traps, Deccan Traps)

[brillowpad1]

@seapeddler nah homie compressed gases are a part of it, but most eruption is because due to partial melting the magma melts its way to the top. and comes out. Hawaii is on a Pacific "hotspot" which has partial melting under it, which is why the island that is acivenow will eventually become inactive and erode away

[seapeddler]

@brillowpad1 True enough about subduction, but volcanoes erupt because of compressed gases. The closer they get to the surface the more the gas expands. Hawaii has a pure source of basalt lava closer to the mantle, so Hawaii eruptions are not as violent. Or perhaps I'm wrong.

[brillowpad1]

All happens because the pacific plate which is made of Basalt subducts under the

South Amercian continental shelf causing partial melting which melts it's way to the top of the continental crust and shoots out as magma, or causes earthquakes. This is the way the Earth recycles herself. ...geology class

[thesincitymama]

very cool cow

[lady88569]

@energy483 not

[moimsman]

My son climbed to the summit in 2006 (age 16) due to some misinformation he received about it having settled down. He had never been so scared in his life when he was just below the summit on his way down and it made one of those bang noises and spat some rocks out. He sprinted quite a ways down with his two friends until he felt somewhat out of range.

[maria4wh]

I mean THE cow lol