I am a daredevil like you wouldn't believe, and I want to hike volcanoes. What kind of protective gear should I invest in, if any?
Im not too knowledgeable about gear but I do know a lot about volcanoes. They happen when the crust of a planet ruptures which allows gas and lava to escape.
Oh yeah, now that's what I'm TALKING about! In the lava, will there be large chunks of rocks floating that I can jump around on?
I wouldnt recommend doing that because of the heat. YOu can find volcanoes where the tectonic plates diverge. Most are underwater.
Oh I'm not worried about the heat. I tan easily. Underwater volcanoes, huh? Should I be worried about getting the bends?
Im no scuba diver. If you want to find some volcanoes head to Hawaii. Its a hotspot for them. They arise from 3000 km deep in the Earth.
That's right, there was just an eruption there recently, right? I wonder if anyone did any lava surfing? That would have been fun.
ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, e.g., in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande Rift in North America. This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of "plate hypothesis" volcanism. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes. These so
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