How Volcanoes Work

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Spatter 

 CROSSWORD #1: SPATTER PATTER

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Crossword Puzzle

 ACROSS

1. Finest pyroclast
4. Ratio of circumference to diameter
6. Toxic component of LAZE
7. Lethal lake
12. Typical methodology
14. Isle ___ Wight
17. Earth's satellite to Pliny
18. Most deadly volcanic phenomena
21. Eruption ruckus?
23. Help for poor student of volcanology
24. Middle tier of joints in a lava flow
25. 2.54 cm, or Highland loch
27. "____ and behold!"
28. Unkindest ____ of all
29. Occurs at an oceanic trench
30. Part of Freud's psyche
34. "Negatory"
35. Volcanic glass
36. Opening at volcano summit
37. Hydrovolcanic vent
39. LXXVII before Pliny's Vesuvius
40. Fate of an object in a highly viscous medium
44. River, in Sonora
47. Volcanic rock of an intermediate composition
49. "____ pig's eye!"
50. Volcanic mudflow
52. Ore analysis
55.
SiO2
56. Molten rock is transported through this
shallow conduit
58. Direction of an eruptive column
59. Intermediate-sized tephra fragments
60. Mg
2(Si2O6) (abbr.)
61. _______ ardente
62. Molten rock on the Earth's surface
64. Hawaiian Goddess of Fire
65. Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface
66. Airborne pyroclastic material

 DOWN

2. Mt. St. Helens is one
3. 55 down, in Sonora
5. "Not one _____."
8. (Mg,Fe)
2SiO4 (abbr.)
9. Component of
volcanic gas
10.
Basaltic lava flow with smooth upper surface
11. Pyroclastic fragments that accumulate as
liquid droplets
12.
Vent composed mostly of basaltic tephra
13.
Mexican volcano born in a cornfield
15. Typical feature of an
Hawaiian eruption
16.
Pyroclastic fragment larger 59 across -- link
19. "Say it ain't ___ , Joe!"
20. An ill one awaited the villagers of
Pompeii
22.
Mt. Pelee is located here
26. Site of the
on-going Hawaiian eruption that began in 1983
31.
Generated in the aftermath of a Plinian eruption
32. Relative distance travelled by a
low-viscosity lava flow
33. A pyroclastic flow up close
38. The lithosphere _______ above a
convecting asthenosphere
40. Silicon (abbr.)
41. 1-800-CAL-LA___
42. 26 down is located on this
shield volcano
43. Created when a
volcano collapses into its own magma chamber
45. "______ of the Earth"?
46. A low-viscosity,
mafic magma
48.
Surface collapse structure above 56 across
51.
Subdued hill surrounded by recent lava
53.
Mauna Loa is one
54. "As the lahar approached, we _____ for cover"
55. Radiating ball of energy at the center of our solar system
57.
Scale of Explosivity (abbr.)
63.
Rugged basaltic lava flow

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