Volcanoes

For an introductory college-level earth sciences class: a review of volcanic process, products, and landforms. Includes discussion of explosive volcanic eruptions with tephra, ash, cinders, volcanic bombs, mud flows (lahars), and pyroclastic flows; gas clouds; acid rain; volcano sources including hotspots, mantle plumes, and flood basalts; pahoehoe vs. aa lavas, as found in Hawaiian eruptions; columnar jointing worldwide; and volcanic landforms of shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, domes, and cinder and pyroclastic cones.

**This video comes near the middle of the semester, so there may be terms with which the audience is unfamiliar. For a full playlist, refer to the Geology playlist on the Earth Rocks! YouTube Channel.

Content within this video is based on information available in any standard introductory college geology textbook, such as Essentials of Geology -- Tarbuck and Lutgens -- Pearson Publishing.

This video is best viewed AFTER watching the Plate Tectonics Series and the Minerals and Igneous Rocks series.

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