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Type of lava
Low
viscosity
Flows
quickly
down slope
As it cools and gets
thicker
, it builds up on lower slopes creating
steeper
slope
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Iceland
is very tectonically active as it sits on a
constructive
plate boundary and on a hotspot
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Predicting volcanic eruptions
1.
Monitoring area
2. Warning people about
volcano eruption
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Iceland has over
30
volcanoes of many different types and sits on
2
tectonic plates
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Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption
Evacuated
area but had
little
effect as not needed
Became
tourist
attraction as not
explosive
after 3 weeks
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Heimaey 1973 eruption
500
,000 evacuated, lots chose not to return
Destroyed over
100
houses
Almost made
uninhabitable
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Rescue and evacuation
1.
Rehearsed
evacuation plans
2. Well
trained
teams, good
equipment
and planning led to
quick
evacuation
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Monitoring and forecasting
1.
Radar
and
forecasting
2. Work out where
ash
is going
3. Helps decide where to
evacuate
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Glacial
outwash
Channels
melt water
more efficiently by making
deeper
channels where it floods more
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Benefits of volcanic activity
Tourism creates
jobs
Fertile
ash
improves
crop yields
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Impacts
outside
of Iceland: ash cloud affects
flights
, years after ash still
blows
against things act like
sandpaper
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