Types of Volcanic Eruptions

It is characterized by gas-driven explosion that propels magma and tephra.

• Explosive Volcanic Eruption

• Effusive Volcanic Eruption

It is the outpouring of lava without significant explosive eruption

• Explosive Volcanic Eruption

• Effusive Volcanic Eruption

The calmest of the eruption types.

• Hawaiian

• Strombolian

• Vulcanian

• Surtseyan

Eruptions driven by bursting gas bubbles within the magma.

• Hawaiian

• Strombolian

• Vulcanian

• Surtseyan

It is an explosive eruption that occurs when the pressure of entrapped gases in a relatively viscous magma becomes sufficient to blow off the overlying crust of solidified lava

• Hawaiian

• Strombolian

• Vulcanian

• Surtseyan

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Considered the most explosive and powerful of all eruptions.

• Hawaiian

• Strombolian

• Vulcanian

• Plinian

Volcanic eruption that takes place beneath the surface of water

• Submarine

• Strombolian

• Surtseyan

• Subglacial

A volcanic eruption can be either _____.

• explosive or gentle

• explosive or violent

• explosive or smooth

• explosive or a geyser

Which of the following is most likely to damage the largest area?

• fissure eruption

• an eruption from a cinder cone

• an eruption that forms a caldera

• lava flows from a shield volcano

Which of the following describes a strombolian eruption?

• a periodic weak to violent eruption characterized by fountain lava

• excessively explosive type of eruption of gas and pyroclastics

• characterized by tall eruption columns that reach up to 20 km high with pyroclastic flow and ashfall

• all of the above