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    Cause and Effect A volcano erupts when magma escapes from inside the earth. As the magma is escaping from a confined space‚ a lot of energy is released with it‚ as happens with any other explosion. This is why many eruptions also produce huge quantities of gases and dust. Magma sometimes rises under enormous pressure‚ so it not only finds cracks in the earth’s crust‚ it can also create them. When magma reaches the earth’s surface it is called lava. An eruption is caused by lava escaping

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    1) mention team structute and factors 2) Roles and responsibilitites I had selected the company Iceland for the following task. Iceland a supermarket having many chains in UK has been formed in the year 1970. Iceland is being considered as a busy organization across UK and Ireland. It is known as a food supermarket which mainly deals with the Refrigerated food‚ meat‚ dairy products etc. Iceland has other 682 branches all over UK and Ireland-Jan2009. Alternative strategy would be the one which

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    Krakatau Krakatau (Krakatoa)‚ is said to have created the worst volcanic eruptions in history‚ in 1883. Ancient Krakatoa formed in 416 A.D. and still exists today in Indonesia. That same explosion‚ in 1883‚ created 130 feet tsunamis‚ which destroyed 130 coastal homes‚ two docks (India and Australia)‚ and killed about 36‚000 people. It created very loud sounds and was heard as far away as Madasagascar‚ about 3‚000 miles away from Java‚ where Krakatau was. Some people even believe that it may

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    this new era of globalization. And the effects are felt no more than in the countries just outside of the fiscal euro-zone‚ which are the most heavily exposed to the financially endangered bloc of nations. Two of these nations are Switzerland and Iceland. Both economies navigate a new economic landscape filled with significant risks‚ and it will be crucial for these nations to take the correct steps to ensure economic growth in the near future. They provide an interesting point for comparison because

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    mountains in the mid-ocean ridges can actually grow tall enough to create islands such as Iceland or the Azores. Other volcanic mountains can form over hot spots‚ which are pockets of magma beneath the crust that erupt onto earth’s surface. The Hawaiian Islands are actually the tops of really high volcanic islands that have formed over a hot spot on the sea floor. The main Hawiian island is actually a volcano that is about 9 km above the ocean floor‚ with a base that is about 160 km wide. Almost 4

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    What makes a volcano hazardous? (40 marks) Within this essay‚ I will evaluate the features of volcanoes that define how hazardous they can be. Secondly I will discuss how ‘hazardous’ can be characterized in different forms such as‚ the effect a county physically‚ socially and economically as well as within both spacial and temporal constructs and how the perspective of hazardous can effect the perspective of how hazardous a volcano is. When looking what makes a volcano hazardous we have to

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    exist in the universe. However‚ one extraterrestrial volcano‚ perhaps the most commonly refered to extraterrestrial volcano‚ has developed a bit of name recognition over the years. Olympus Mons‚ one of the many volcanos found on Mars‚ is a giant shield volcano ("Mars | Volcano World | Oregon State University"‚ 2016). To give the phrase "giant sheild volcano" scale‚ Olympus Mons is 374 miles in diameter‚ meaning the extraterrestrial volcano is roughly the size of the state of Arizona ("United States

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    woman‚ and a monster “below the waterfall” are all the Icelandic versions of the struggles in Beowulf. Vigfusson concludes that the old Scandinavian legend must have branched in two ways: as an epic in England‚ and as a domestic tale and saga in Iceland

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    The volcano has been slowly building on itself creating the peaks Palea and Nea Kameni. They emerged in 197BC and were first documented by Greek geographer Strabo. There have been eight eruptions with the last taking place in 1950. There were five points when

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    were landing. When we landed everyone headed directly to their hotels frantically. It was July 25th‚ 2018 we decided to stay even with the shark attacks‚ Ashley‚ her parents and I had all planned to explore the island starting with seeing Poas Volcano. At the summit you could see the crater it was an amazing view! Next we went to the shops that we had passed earlier in the middle

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