IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY AND

TYPE OF VOLCANOES?

Period 1

PROCEDURE

• Obtain Excel data file of almost 1500 volcanoes located around the world

• Group descriptions into the major types of volcanoes – cinder, shield, and composite

SMALL EXAMPLE OF THE DATANUMBER RN SN VN NAME

LOCATION STATUS LATX NS VF LONGX EW ELEV TYPE TIMEFRAME

0103-05- 01 03 -05-Kars Plateau Turkey

Holocene? 40.75N * 42.9E 3000Cinder cone ?

0104-07- 01 04 -07-Ghegam Ridge

Armenia

Anthropology 40.275N * 44.75E 3597Cinder cone D7

0201-124 02 01 -124 Gufa EthiopiaHolocene 12.55N *

42.53333E 600Cinder cone U

0201-125 02 01 -125

Assab Volc Field Ethiopia

Holocene 12.95N *

42.43333E 987Cinder cone U

0201-191 02 01 -191 Beru EthiopiaHolocene 8.95N 39.75E 1100Cinder cone U

0202-13= 02 02 -13-Chyulu Hills Africa-E

Anthropology

-2.68333S *

37.88333E 2188Cinder cone D3

0204-04- 02 04 -04-

Ngaoundere Plateau

Africa-W

Holocene? 7.25N *

13.66667E Cinder cone ?

0204-05- 02 04 -05-Biu Plateau

Africa-W

Holocene? 10.75N * 12E Cinder cone ?

0205-002 02 05 -002

Tin Zaouatene Volc Field Africa-N

Holocene

19.83333N *

2.833333E Cinder cone U

0205-003 02 05 -003

In Ezzane Volc Field Africa-N

Holocene? 23N *

10.83333E Cinder cone ?

0205-007 02 05 -007 Haruj Africa-NHolocene 27.25N * 17.5E 1200Cinder cone U

USING AEJEE PLOT THE DATA

PLATE BOUNDARIES

TEAM WORK

• Randomly teams of three students will be given a specific area of the world that has a lot of volcanic activity.

• It is the team’s responsibility to do the following:– ‘code’ the volcanoes and screen capture their area

– Using Google Earth, map out the boundary and screen capture their area

– Determine the type of plate boundary

– Determine the main type of volcanic activity at this location

PRESENTATION

• Create powerpoint slides that show the screen capture from AEJEE and Google Earth

• Include a graphic that illustrates an example of this type of volcano from this area

• As a class, create one sentence that shows the relationship between that specific plate boundary and the main type of volcanic eruption

GROUP 1

• Alexis

• Daniel C

• Ashton

Aleutian Islands

GOOGLE EARTH

PACIFIC PLATE - OCEANIC

NORTH AMERICAN PLATE –OCEANIC

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

• CONVERGENT

• OCEANIC-OCEANIC

• Composite – tall, steep sided volcanoes, explosive eruptions

TYPE OF VOLCANO: COMPOSITE

MT. CLEVELAND

GROUP 2

• ASIA J

• CARLOS M

• JULIAN S

Andes, South America

GOOGLE EARTH

NAZCA PLATE -Oceanic

SOUTH AMERICAN PLATE -CONTINENTAL

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

CONVERGENT – OCEANIC/CONTINENTAL

MAIN TYPE OF VOLCANO

LASCAR VOLCANO

GROUP 3

• Mary S

• Tatiana R

• Juan R

Central America

VIEW via GOOGLE EARTH

COCOS OCEANIC PLATE

CARRIBEAN PLATE -CONTINENTAL

NORTH AMERICAN PLATE -CONTINENTAL

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

• CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY between the Cocos Plate on the west that is an oceanic plate and the Caribbean Plate on the east that is a continental plate

TYPE OF VOLCANO

ARENAL VOLCANO, COSTA RICA is an example of the volcanoes here.

TEAM 4

• Taylor C

• Joel C

• Chanel S

East African Rift Zone

View from Google Earth

AFRICAN PLATE

AFRICAN PLATE

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

TYPE OF VOLCANO

SHIELD VOLCANOMT. KILAMANJERO

GROUP 5

• Tyler F

• Marcus B

• Myles A

Cascades, Northwest US

Google Earth Screen Shot

Juan de Fuca Plate -Oceanic

North American Plate -Continental

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

TYPE OF VOLCANO

MT. ST. HELENS

GROUP 6

• Alexandra C

• Caitlyn G

• Terrance E

Caribbean

Google Earth

OCEANIC

OCEANIC

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

TYPE OF VOLCANO

MT. PELEE

GROUP 7

• Austin

• Ashley

• Chandler

Galapagos Islands

TYPE OF VOLCANO

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

• NONE – HOT SPOT

GROUP 8

• Kira M

• Cole P

Iceland

Google Earth

NORTH AMERICAN PLATE

EURASIAN PLATE

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARYDIVERGENT

TYPE OF VOLCANO

Eyafjallajökull volcano

GROUP 9

• Gustavo

• Brandon G

• Ricky

Indonesia

GOOGLE EARTH

OCEANIC

OCEANIC

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

TYPE OF VOLCANO

Mahameru (Semeru) above Mount Bromo, East Java

COMPOSITE

GROUP 11

• COLE

• KATRINA

• COTY

Japan

GOOGLE EARTH

OCEANICPacific Plate

CONTINENTALNorth American

TYPE OF VOLCANO

MT. FUJI

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

GROUP 12

• Jeremy M

• Bryce M

• Andrew M

Juan De Fuca

GOOGLE EARTH

PACIFIC PLATE

JUANDEFUCA

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

TYPE OF VOLCANO

PILLOW LAVAS – develop on the ocean floor; if keep growing would be a shield volcano

GROUP 13

• Shannen

• Callan

Mariana Trench

GOOGLE EARTH

PACIFIC PLATE

PHILIPPINE PLATE

TYPE OF PLATE BOUNDARY

TYPE OF VOLCANO

PILLOW LAVA

CLASS FINDINGS

• DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES are characterized by pillow lavas and shield volcanoes. This is because the magma is coming from the mantle and is low in silica. This produces short, broad volcanoes with quiet eruptions.

• CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES produce very explosive volcanic eruptions characterized by composite volcanoes such as Mt. Fuji and Mt. St. Helens. These volcanoes are the result of the subducting plate being melted and coming back to the surface as a composite volcanic eruption either in islands or mountains.