Volcanoes Online

elcome to Volcanoes Online, a web site created, maintained, and paid for by Zach Leatherman and Jered Hofker. This site contains links to live video of active volcanoes, photos of volcanoes only 30 seconds old, and lots of volcano information. We researched three main volcanoes of interest and gathered lots of data on these volcanoes. Enjoy! Announcements April 05, 1998 - This page was first launched though not completed. April 08, 1998 6:35 - rough draft for the site finished. April 09, 1998 - Probable Due Date. Minimum Requirements Netscape 3.0 (4.0 recommended) 800 x 600 screen size 256 colors To view the Movies - (MPG Movie Viewer [.MPG files] and Apple Quicktime recommended [.MOV files]) Come on District #145 - UPGRADE - It's FREE! Download Netscape Navigator 4.05 for PowerPC () Internal Links LavaJava Chat () Sign View Count4ALL is powered by IS4ALL Formation of Volcanoes This section will provide information on how volcanoes are formed, and how they come to be the way they are today. Volcanoes are particularly spectacular to watch, as long as you're not in harm's way. dantespeak.com Questions Dante's Peak, a movie portraying a small town's escape from the wrath of a volcano, has their own internet site. This site had some interesting information which we would like to display here. The theory and process of volcano creation, and some interesting volcano facts are information included in this section. Magazine Source - SIRS We looked to SIRS for our extra source, a magazine listing, and we found a very interesting article worth including on this site. Stromboli Project An internet site dedicated to the studying of "the Recent and ongoing activity of Stromboli and other volcanoes". See also Mt. Stromboli below. Mt. Stromboli This volcano had a plethora of information because of one source. Stromboli Online (http://stromboli.net/). This resource had almost too much multimedia information to handle, and it contained many pictures and movies of Mt. Stromboli. Mt. Fuji Information on this particular volcano was hard to come by because of it's location in Japan. Japan, as you know, speaks an entirely different langauge than us Americans, so all their information on the internet was written in Japanese, which of course, my American web browser, could not translate or even read. So we had to translate it all by ourselves and we think you'll be suprised to see how good our Japanese really is (?). Most of their internet pages were written like this: #$&*#^@*&^$*#^@$*(*&%. I think it was my browser translating, but maybe they just like to use a lot of vulgar language. Mt. Etna This seemed to be the most popular of the volcanoes we chose to research. Information on this volcano was everywhere, not just in one central location. We seemed to have many links to information on this volcano, so if you would like, you can visit the many sites focused on Mt. Etna. Other Volcanoes of Interest We decided to include this section on the many volcanoes that go unmentioned. We chose three others, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Shasta and Vulcano (?). This section provides less extensive coverage, and contains images, and sometimes movies. This section also includes some external links to other sites with information and multimedia on miscellaneous volcanoes. Stats for the Volcanoes Location: sometimes we included latitude and longitude, but mostly just what country the volcano was in and the general area. Elevation: in feet, and most of the time we included meters. Why (it is located there): Hotspot vs. Plate Boundary, all of our volcanoes were located on faults or the edges of plates. Type (of volcano): this takes a little more depth. There are 3 groups of volcanoes and the groups are based on the shape of the volcano and the type of the material they are build of. Shield volcanoes are formed when a large amount of free-flowing lava spills from a vent and spreads widely. The lava gradually builds up a low, broad, dome-shaped mountain. Thousands of seperate, overlapping lava flows, each less than 50 feet (15 meters) thick. Cinder Cones build up when mostly tephra erupts from a vent and falls back to the earth around the vent. The accumulated tephra, which is generally cinders, forms a cone-shaped mountain. Composite volcanoes are formed when both lava and tephra erupt from a central vent. The material pile up in alternate layers around the vent and forma towering, cone-shaped mountain. Past Eruptions/History: a brief list of past eruptions or other happenings. Future Predictions: what we predict may happen with these selected volcanoes. Copyright 1998 Leatherman and Hofker Enterprises