Volcano Final

Corrine Johnson

Right now 20 volcanos could be erupting and causing mass amounts of damage to towns, people, wildlife, and greenery. Although all these things could be ruined, the volcano’s eruption can be beneficial to other things as well. from about 1990 to 1999 about 154 volcanos erupted. 550 total volcanos have been historically documented and about 1500 not recorded but still accounted for. While these big volcanos were on land there are an estimated 1 million young volcanoes in the oceans.

A volcano is a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust. A single volcano can last for hundreds to thousands of years. In Sumbawa, Indonesia the world’s most devastating volcano erupted (found at: http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/tambora.html). Volcanoes are formed when magma from within the Earth’s upper mantle works its way to the surface. At the surface, it erupts to form lava flows and ash deposits. Over time as the volcano continues to erupt, it will get bigger and bigger.

Volcanic eruptions can be very destructive and dangerous, but the deposits of rock, ashes, and mineral that come from the lava magma can be very helpful in a farming business, for the old dried magma is rich in soil. So if there are farmers who are in need of some fertilizer, why not go scoop up some old dry magma? But there are some places where there is too much fertilizer and it over-fertilizes and kills the crops.

The farms are really the only benefit of the molten hot magma. Volcanos otherwise are very destructive and bring trouble to manys families, homes, or other properties and leaves them hopeless, and needing to move in order to find somewhere safe to live. Volcanos erupt all the time and some don't even deteriorate for long after. They all start as something small and innocent, but eventually your home could fall victim to the dangerous mass if one is near.