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Essay Instructions: Volcanoes are generally not preserved in the geologic rock record as they are usually eroded away. However, the various materials erupted from volcanoes are often found preserved in the rock record. From what you have learned about the different types of volcanoes, how could you infer what type of volcano erupted in a given area based on the type of volcanic deposits now found as layers of rock? Give specific examples, and briefly discuss how some materials may be linked to different types of volcanoes.



Compare and contrast relative age dating with radiometric dating. What are the strengths and limitations (if any) of each?

Essay Instructions: statements made should be supported by arguments and/or references.

explain the impact of an individual volcanic event upon a human society, with particular reference to the relevance that the geology of the volcano had upon the magnitude of that impact.

Essay Instructions: The following are suggested topics; however, the writer may contact me to suggest a more original topic (this is encouraged). Although it doesn't hurt to tackle the one's I'm listing:

The Subject is Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano" and should be a literary essay as such.

1. Post Colonial reading of imperial politics one can get out of the novel; wherever you go with this is fine.

2. Interior monologue in Under the Volcano; you may use Ulysses by James Joyce for comparison.

3. Reading Dante with Lowry

4. A paper on narrative structure and strategies of UTV

5. The religious meanings of UTV ie redemption, sin, paradise etc.

6. The movement of money/distribution of wealth and privilege in UTV

Please respond with the topic asap so I can search for supplemental sources

Also the sources must be of literary merit and North American sources for the most part. (4-5) sources is preferred.

Essay Instructions: Please answer each individual question in a short summary pertaining to the questions.

1. Compare/contrast the following volcanoes: Pinatubo, Tambora, Krakatoa, the Laki fissure eruption, and Mount Toba. When did these eruptions occur, why did they occur (plate boundary relationships), size, impact on the local, regional, and global environments, and other important impacts.

2. What is an “evolutionary bottleneck” and how was the eruption of Mount Toba important to this?

3. What occurred relative to the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980? How does the eruption of Mt. St. Helens compare to the volcanoes investigated in question #1?

4. Why doesn’t massive destruction and loss of life occur relative to Hawaiian volcanoes – hasn’t Kilauea been erupting continually since the 1970s?


5. Compare/contrast the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the Anchorage Alaska quake of 1964, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the New Madrid earthquake of 1811-12, the Kobe earthquake, the Mexico City quake of 1985, and the Shensi, China earthquakes. What significant impacts separate these quakes from each other?