
Episode 124: Volcanoes
The Science of Everything Podcast
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A Few Interesting Case Studies of Volcanoes
The volcanic iy index is a metric that's used to measure the extent to which a volcanic eruption is explosive, and how much. The more energetic it is, or in this case, the larger the volume of material that are extruded, that the rarer they are. A vi of five corresponds to an ejectide volume of more than one cubic kilometer. At that point you start to get significant injection of materials into the atosphere. And so we talked about coldera, as we talked column adjoining volcanic plateaus and gueses,. All very interesting landform phenomena that results from volcanoes.
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