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Earth and Space Sciences · 术语表

什么是 Vent and crater?

又称: vent · crater

Definition 19.3 Primary & Middle School Earth and Space Sciences · 第 19 章 — Volcanoes

A vent is an opening at the surface through which magma, gas and ash come out. A crater is the bowl-shaped hollow around a vent, usually at the top of the volcano.

A volcano cut open (a drawing, not to scale). Magma gathers in the magma chamber and rises through a pipe to the main vent, at the bottom of the crater; a branch reaches a side vent on the flank. Each eruption adds a layer of lava or of ash to the cone.
A volcano cut open (a drawing, not to scale). Magma gathers in the magma chamber and rises through a pipe to the main vent, at the bottom of the crater; a branch reaches a side vent on the flank. Each eruption adds a layer of lava or of ash to the cone.

示例

Example 19.6 (Pinatubo, 1991: the flat soda and the shaken one)

In June 1991 the first magma reached the surface of Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines. On its way up it had lost most of its gas, “like a bottle of soda pop gone flat”, in the words of the scientists who were watching. It oozed out slowly and piled up into a mound over the vent: no explosion. Then, on 12 June, magma still full of gas reached the surface and exploded — the column in the photograph above. On 15 June, even more gas-rich magma arrived, and the volcano had one of the largest eruptions of the twentieth century: it threw out more than five cubic kilometres of rock and ash, its ash cloud rose 35 km35\,\mathrm{km} high, and the top of the mountain collapsed into a hollow 2.5 km2.5\,\mathrm{km} across. The same volcano, the same week: the gas made the difference.

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