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ESS Ch 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| decompression melting | when pressure drops a rocks melting temperature lower |
| ring of fire | the long belt of volcanoes that circles the pacific ocean |
| intraplate volcanism | volcanic activity that occurs within a plate |
| viscosity | a substances resistance to flow |
| vent | gases trapped in magma provide the force to propel molt rock out of this which is an opening at the surface |
| particles produced in volcanic eruptions | pyroclastic materials |
| volcano | repeated eruptions of lava or pyroclastic material eventually build a mountain |
| crater | located at the summit of many volcanoes is this steep walled depression |
| shield volcano | are produced by the accumulation of fluid basaltic lavas |
| cinder cone | ejected lava fragments that harden in air and build this type of volcano |
| composite cone | a large, nearly symmetrical volcanic mountain composed of layers of both lava and pyroclastic deposits |
| volcanic neck | a landform made of magma that hardened in a volcanos pipe and later exposed by erosion |
| lahar | occurs when water soaked volcanic ash and rock slide rapidly downhill |
| pluton | structures that result from the cooling and hardening of magma beneath the Earth's surface |
| laccolith | lens shaped pluton that has pushed hte overyling rocks upward |
| dike | a pluton that forms when magma moves into fractures that cut across rock layers |
| batholith | the largest bodies of intrusive igneous rocks |
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