how are auckland volcanoes formed?
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If the basalt magma mixes with water (seawater or groundwater) super heated steam blows it apart. This causes a pyroclastic eruption that produces fall and flow deposits and has created the low rings of pyroclastic rock (called tuff) around the craters of many Auckland volcanoes such as Lake Pupuke.
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Volcanic eruptions occur only in certain places and do not occur randomly. ... Most volcanoes are found along a belt, called the “Ring of Fire” that encircles the Pacific Ocean. Some volcanoes, like those that form the Hawaiian Islands, occur in the interior of plates at areas called “hot spots.”
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A volcano is formed when hot molten rock, ash and gases escape from an opening in the Earth's surface. The molten rock and ash solidify as they cool, forming the distinctive volcano shape shown here. As a volcano erupts, it spills lava that flows downslope. Hot ash and gases are thrown into the air.
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New Zealand sits on the Pacific 'ring of fire,' a geographical area known for its significant earthquake and volcanic activity. Auckland alone is sitting on over 50 volcanoes, and 10 major still-active ones are scattered all over the country. Mild eruptions occur regularly.
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Volcanoes and Mountains In areas where oceanic plates collide with continental plates, volcanoes often form, like the volcanoes that circle the Pacific Ocean called the Ring of Fire.
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Volcanoes erupt when molten rock called magma rises to the surface. Magma is formed when the earth's mantle melts. Melting may happen where tectonic plates are pulling apart or where one plate is pushed down under another. Magma is lighter than rock so rises towards the Earth's surface.
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An island arc is a chain or group of islands that forms from volcanic activity along a subduction zone. Subduction occurs when oceanic lithosphere sinks underneath continental or oceanic lithosphere. The sinking rock melts into the magma in the asthenosphere and some comes to the surface, forming volcanoes.
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A mountain is formed due to various geological processes like movement and opposition of tectonic plates but a volcano is formed around a vent that allows magma to reach the surface of the earth.
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Igneous rocks form when magma (molten rock) cools and crystallizes, either at volcanoes on the surface of the Earth or while the melted rock is still inside the crust.
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Igneous rocks can also form where plates bump up against each other. Sometimes when tectonic plates converge they create an area where one tectonic plate is pushed under another plate. ... It will either solidify underground or make its way to the surface as lava and then solidify, but either way it will form igneous rock.
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Volcanoes erupt when molten rock called magma rises to the surface. Magma is formed when the earth's mantle melts. ... If magma is thick, gas bubbles cannot easily escape and pressure builds up as the magma rises. When the pressure is too much an explosive eruption can happen, which can be dangerous and destructive.
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Hotspot volcanoes are considered to have a fundamentally different origin from island arc volcanoes. The latter form over subduction zones, at converging plate boundaries. When one oceanic plate meets another, the denser plate is forced downward into a deep ocean trench.
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Mt. Fuji is one of the few large composite volcanoes made of basalt in the world. Its current beautiful cone shape was caused by eruptions during three periods: Komitake, Kofuji, and Shinfuji. An explosive Edo Period eruption 1707 created Hoei Crater and formed the huge volcanic ash field on the east side.
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Eruptions. Each type of volcano erupts as a result of the same basic process. ... These eruptions generally occur in the same locations because they involve the same plates. Volcanoes evolve when molten lava—magma above ground—cools, forming the basic volcano types.
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Rotorua is the only single-event caldera in the Taupo volcanic zone and was formed about 220,000 years ago following eruption of the >340 cu km rhyolitic Mamaku Ignimbrite.
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When magma erupts at the surface it can form different types of volcanoes depending on the viscosity, or stickiness, of the magma, the amount of gas in the magma, and the way in which the magma reached the surface. Different types of volcanoes include stratovolcanoes, shield, fissure vents, spatter cones and calderas.