The Importance Of The Stromboli Volcano

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The Stromboli Volcano is located at Aeolian Islands, Italy reference to picture 1 page 6. Stromboli is one of the 3 active volcanoes in Italy. Its is one of the eight islands of Aeolian Islands. The name Stromboli is from the greek name Strongule which is because of the round swelling form. The coordinates are 38.79 N, 15.21 E along with the summit elevation 926 m located near the Tyrrhenian Sea. Stromboli is an island north of the Sicily and is one of the most active volcano, it is the 3rd most explosive volcano in the world a reference picture would be to picture 2 on page 6. Stromboli is home to roughly about 400 to 850 people. Stromboli is apart of the Calabrian volcanic arc, which is involved with the subduction zone that is located …show more content…

It has a small eruption every 20 minutes. It is well known that Stromboli is consistently active, and only has very few major eruptions of the glowing lava that is shot above the craters nearly 100 to 200 m. Stromboli is a stratovolcano, and composite. Stratovolcano is a know for the size and cone shape, they are made of a hardened lava layer, volcanic ash and tephra. They are steep and the lava tends to shoot our very viscous and the lava cools quickly. The large bubbles of gas resulting from solute solution cause the stromboli explosions when they reach the top of the conduit and burst explosively to the surface. Solute solution means that gas dissolved in the magma as a result of the falling pressure as the magma rises towards the surface. This gas forms bubbles with gradually grow in size as they merge with other bubbles. Then they rise to the top and bubble then burst with the pressure or they flow out of the volcano. The explosions are caused when bubbles of gas burst explosively at the top of the conduit. These gases together with the continuous lower level degassing result in estimated produce of 6-12 thousand tons of glasses a day. The Stromboli Volcano has many vents that are inside the summit crater which is referenced in picture 5 on page 6. There are three craters called the crater terrace, this is …show more content…

People are allowed to watch its small eruptions. The allow people to go to the older crater and stand on the rim of only 150-250 m which is almost directly above the active craters which is apparently a perfect view of the terrace. The visitor understand that there is a very small chance that they could be involved in an eruption that could kill them, but it happens very few. There have been visitors who have had no problems that climb but only with a local guide and there has been few who have died in the past 30 years only two tourist lately have been killed due to the eruptions. Yet many people still risk their lives to see this magnificent volcano and its natural beauty. Due to past terrible eruptions this island was evacuated and the population went down tremendously, a person who wrote a book actually saved this island in a way by attracting visitors. On this island there is an abundance of lush vegetation, and architecture, along with beautiful beaches. The stromboli has not been hard on the wildlife. This island has become an amazing tourist attraction reference is pictures 8-9 page 6. There is two stylist who own a villa here called Dolce and Gabbana who stay on holidays there. There are fishing and many tourist houses. The people of stromboli live off of the tourist revenue mainly, they have boat trips and the famous volcano excursions. Ficogrande has a beach of black volcanic sand. There are views towards

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