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Question
What are the influences of volcanoes eruption on man?
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What is the importance of volcanoes?
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Mention adverse and beneficial effects of volcanoes.
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Solution
Adverse effects of volcanoes
- Most of the recently formed volcanic areas are barren and forbidding to man.
- The sudden flow of basic lava from an eruptive volcano may cause the total destruction of human life property and crops in the neighbouring areas.
- The Karakatoa volcanic eruption (in 1883) caused such high sea waves that Karakatoa and several other neighbouring islands were completely destroyed.
- Volcanoes eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. buried and destroyed completely the two Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Beneficial effects of Volcanoes :
- The soil made up of lava is very fertile.
- Lakes are formed when the craters are filled up with waters.
- Several minerals which are found deep down come up near the surface of the earth.
- Lava flows have preserved many fossils which throw much light on the past life.
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