On the beautiful, tropical island of Hawaii, a structure that is not only large, but also deadly and packed with heat, is called the Mauna Loa. In the native Hawaiian language, "Mauna Loa" means “long mountain” and it has definitely earned that name. It is a volcano that towers over Hawaii and is the biggest volcanic structure in the world. This structure is also the most active volcano and mountain in the world. It is located in the south central area of the small island, Hawaii in the United States which is also located on the North Pacific Ocean. The Mauna Loa is one of the five volcanoes which forms the island of Hawaii. The other volcanoes located on the island state are the Kohala, Mauna Kea, Hualalai and Kilauea. Among all of these natural cliffs, Mauna Loa is by far the biggest. It covers a large area of the island, not to mention rises about 13.680 feet above sea level. There is much to learn about this unique volcanic specimen.
Firstly, in order to understand the Mauna Loa, one must know the type of volcano it is. The Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, with wide moderate sloping sides. Shield volcanoes are created when lava emerges out from fissures in
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In theory, the Mauna Loa could have been erupting for 100,000 years. Mauna Loa is second youngest of the five of volcano on the Island of Hawaii. It began erupting about 700,000 to 1,000,000 year ago. It is one of the five volcanoes that was created as plates in the ocean moved over the Hawaii hotspot in the Earth’s underlying mantle. From the past, Mauna Loa had begun as a submarine volcano, growing underwater until it finally surfaced and created a great part of the land of Hawaii. The first sighting of the eruption of the Mauna Loa was said to be in 1780. It has erupted many times since then. The latest eruption was in 1984. The United States Geological Survey determined that the volcano has erupted on an average of every six
Waikanaloa Wet Cave is located on the north side of Kauai directly off of Highway 560. There has been some debate that the name of this cave was erroneously switched with the wet cave farther off the road called Waikapala’e. There is also a nearby dry cave called Maniniholo. Hawaiians believe that the fire goddess, Pele, gifted these caves to her lover but she later abandoned them when they became filled with water. There is parking conveniently located next to the Waikanaloa Wet Cave’s entrance.
During the daytime, you get to look down at the clouds, as well as the impressive volcano Mauna Lua across the plain. Mauna Lua is the world’s largest volcano and mountain when speaking of mass. When on the summit at night, you may be able to see the glowing lava flowing from Mauna Lua.
Wow, this is an amazing sight of beauty. Why is this not a national park? It seems as if we are thinking the same thing. It is visited by hundreds of people every year. I think the government should make this wonderful decision to make the Providence Canyon a national park.
The traditions of ancient Polynesia hold both polytheistic and animistic religious structures. They worship several deities as well as ascribe to the spiritual beliefs of things existent in nature, such as water and trees. The cosmology of the Hawaiian people and the Māori from New Zealand recognize multiple gods and goddesses, and many of them are female deities. Worship of deities for every element was found in both cultures; fire, water, air and earth all had gods or goddesses that ruled those elements. Evident in both Hawaiian and Māori culture is a female deity believed to rule fire.
The rejuvenated stage occurs after a long period of dormancy. During this stage, the volcano erupts small amounts of lava very infrequently, often several million years apart. Eventually, erosion breaks the volcano back down to sea level where it becomes an atoll (coral atoll stage). Because atolls are the growth of coral and marine organisms, when the Pacific Plate carries the atoll to waters too cold for these organisms to survive, they erode away into seamounts and
The eruption removed 1,300 feet of the summit leaving a horseshoe-shaped crater and a barren wasteland. This famous mountain got it 's name from Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, they
However, the eruption on May 18th was a true surprise. Within minutes, the mountain went from calm and quiet to become one of the greatest powerful natural disaster ever recorded in the U.S-
Haleakalā has two districts. There is the Summit district and the Coastal district. The Summit district is where Haleakalā Volcano. Another name for the volcano is the East Maui Volcano.
Triggered the largest landslide in recorded history and a major volcanic eruption that scattered ashes across a dozen states. The blast removed 1,300 feet off the top of Mt. St. Helen, making shockwave flow across the land, flattening forests and melting snow and ice, making it all muddy everywhere. A 57 total
During the Pliocene, Haleakala did not exist yet. “In the late Pliocene time, the shields of six volcanoes were built up above sea level from basaltic lava foundation on the ocean floor.” These volcanoes erupted above from the ocean floor and build up shields of accumulations of pahoehoe and aa flows, these are the Honomau formation. “In the earliest Pleistocene times, flows of the Honomanu formation, many thousands of feet, thick, constructed the bulk of the East Maui volcano.
It destroyed over 230 square miles of land. The volcano destroyed two hundred and fifty homes. Not only that but killing fifty- seven people and around seven thousand big game within the area. Also, the eruption of Mt St Helens is the most studied volcanic eruption
The magma is much less dense than than other solid layers around it. As the magma rises the dissolved gases make the magma shoot up even faster. When the magma reaches the surface it is considered lava. When the lava cools it turns into rock that build up layers on the volcano. There are two types of volcanoes, a stratovolcanoes and shield volcanoes.
Volcanoes are one of the most dangerous natural disasters, possibly even more than earthquakes. When a earthquake occurs, things can end devastatingly, especially when it happens in a largely populated area. Earthquakes materialize when two tectonic plates rub against each other, and can cause the ground to break open and crumble huge buildings. Even so the death rate and destruction when compared to a volcano is relatively small. When looking back at the large earthquake that hit California’s San Francisco Bay back in October 17th, 1989, with a magnitude of 6.9, it cost $5 billion in damage and killed 67 people.
Earth quakes are caused when tectonic plates build up pressure by colliding with another tectonic plate by suddenly releasing the energy and causing them to snap. Tsunamis are caused by earth quakes when the energy is released in the water. Volcanoes are created by inter-plate activity where magma pushes up between cracks in tectonic plate boundaries , the drift of hotspots in continental plates which pushes magma through the surface. Islands are formed when sea mounts which is an under water volcano appear above the water as they erupt they build up layers of lava that may eventually break the waters surface, thus causing a island to appear over geological