Volcanoes

    Volcanoes are mountains of volcanic ash that build upwhen a volcano eruption occurs.Volcanoes are also full of a hot liquid called magma.  Magma is formed by the melting of rocks.  When the volcano erupts and the magma rises out of the neck of the volcano it is then called lava.  Lava flies out of the volcano and causes ash to fly out of the volcano.  Sometimes when the lava comes out it can form an ash cloud which is full of lava ash and could also kill a person if it is inhaled.
   A volcano is formed by the earth's mantle melting, when the mantle melts and is pushed up above the surface  it creates lava that cools off.  The lava of the volcano keeps on building up and when the volcano erupts lava flows down the edge of the volcanoes surface and it dries. Over millions and millions of years the volcano lava  packing up it forms a the volcano and makes it bigger.  Thevolcanic ash of the volcano also packs up and helps make the volcano bigger. The  Magma packs up inside of the volcanic layers and then all at once themagmacomes out and forms lava and then the volcano erupts.
   There are two specific types of volcanoes. There is surface volcanoes and there is underwater volcanoes. The difference beetween them is that the underwater volcanoes grow underwater when the volcano erupts, and the surface volcanoes grow above ground when they erupt. Most of the volcano that is above ground is lava that has dries. The volcanoes in the bottom of the ocean are big because once the lava is released it cools down right on the spot.

Hazards

Eruptions

Causes of Eruptions
 

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