Dante's Peak Movie Analysis

They are so high because of the many eruptions that already happened here. The debris were falling on the sides of the volcano, making it grow. A stratovolcano is able to produce the worst of all the eruptions: the Plinian eruption. It is called after a famous Roman naval commander and at the same time a scientist interested in natural and geological events, Pliny the Elder. He died while trying to get closer to the Mount Vesuvius that was erupting.

Polyphemus informs his father who claims vengeance upon the loss of his son’s only eye. Poseidon kicks up a tsunami in the middle of the ocean that pound Odysseus, but are only strong enough to leave him on the verge of death. Modern-day science has provided another reason for this great force of nature. “a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water” (NASA 1). A subduction in the Earth’s crust is basically one of the plates is sinking under another plate.

The main plot starts with Pierce Brosnans character Harry Dolton, a volcanologist, going to a small town of Dante's Peak to investigate some reports of activity and to possibility of an eruption. When he confirms to seismic activity he has now a real world dilemma that geologist struggle with. Does he send out a early warning to the town and evacuate it saving people or risk crying wolf if the volcano does not erupt which would hurt the town economically as it relies on tourism. This point is something that would have happened in the resents past of the film's production with the false alarm of Mammoth Mountain in the 1980s and the eruption of Mt Saint Helens where the geologist were far early in their predictions. The Geologist themselves in the film are depicted in what has become something of a stereotype.

Abstract Volcanic detection methods were developed to predict volcanic eruptions, which have a harmful impact on humans. Hazards like lahars, tephra, and pyroclastic flows, are results of volcanic eruptions, and have the ability to destroy everything that they come in contact with. Remote sensing, ground deformation, and volcanic gas detection, are three of the volcanic detection methods that work together to track movement of magma and gas moving through a volcano. Seismic monitoring is used around volcanoes to track the various seismic noises from a volcano, and is able to differentiate between their causes. Seismometers collect this data, so scientists can monitor changes in a volcano to assess and predict if or when an eruption will occur.

For example, when Jess, Eddie and Sam were in the abandon cabin they experienced an earthquake. The reader can sense the frightfulness they must have endured as trees tumbled down everywhere around them in the forest. The author also describes in detail how the heat from the blast felt so hot that every breath was like inhaling fire. Thankfully, Jess figured out that if she tucked her shirt over her mouth she could breath. This intrigues us to read on as the reader wants more details on what she is going through and how she survived.

The simplest of these are the columnar sulfide chimneys at the East Pacific Rise (EPR). These chimneys are often the result of volcanic eruptions and are characterized by high temperatures (>4000C) (Tivey, 2007). Formation of these black smoker hydrothermal vents begins when metal- and sulfide-rich acid fluids mix with seawater, causing the metal sulfides to precipitate and form particle rich black plumes. The microbiological communities at the EPR sites are dominated by sulfide as the main electron donor for respiration (Jørgensen & Boetius, 2007). More complex hydrothermal vent systems are found at the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse (TAG), where vigorously venting black smokers and entrainment of seawater beneath the mound trigger the remobilization of zinc (Zn) and other trace metals which are subsequently deposited

As previously mentioned, the organisms on these landforms evolve to live in these new environments with success, and to reproduce and form a new generation. The landform shifting can also cause earthquakes, which further shift the land and cause the organisms to evolve further. The earthquakes can also cause mudslides and tsunamis, which can destroy or cover any human-made structures and buildings. The destruction of these human-made structures and buildings an also cause devastating effects to the landmasses on Earth, with the death of organisms being a common factor. As a result, many creatures have gone extinct or have become endangered from the deadly destruction of a

The great heat from this localized hotspot melts the Pacific plate above the hotspot and the spreading seafloor along the plate boundary pushed over the rocky crust. Magma was produced from the melting rock of the Pacific plate. The magma rise through the mantle and the crust as a thin thermal plume because magma is less dense than the solid rock of the plate. It was erupting beneath the ocean to form an active seamount. With the countless eruptions under the sea, the height of seamount keep increase until it breaks the ocean surface and becomes an island volcano.

The earth will be shaken seriously and crushed in moment subsequent to the severe explosion. How? In what manner will this explosion occur? And when is it likely to happen? The explosion will occur at the time the ability of man reaches its climax on earth when the technological development might have got to the highest degree and all the secrets of the earth and sky are discovered, which of course, will lead to the competition of power between one nation and another.

He starts to realize that he was wrong when his father says “go get that oil” (234). The whole time he was running to get the oil he had thoughts about running away “I could run on and on…” but he decided he couldn’t because he would leave his family and the barn would still get burned down (234). He knew he could not stand by any longer and watch his father do this again

Potassium-40 decays into Argon-40 at a known rate. To do this method volcanic rock must be present, the measurement of Potassium-40 to Argon-40 is looked at and the results of the measurement is compared to the decay rate of Potassium-40. The clock is set to 0 as soon as a volcanic eruption occurs because when rocks are heated up they release all the Argon-40 that was in them into the atmosphere, leaving them with none and when it hardens again it becomes vulnerable to the gasses. The Potassium-40 will decay in the rock into Argon-40 and this results in the Argon-40 getting trapped by the rock. The half-life of Potassium-40 is 1,250 million years, and with a half-life that large we are able to use this dating method on items as old as 500 thousand years old to billions of years old.

It seems likely that it could be. The figure it has and how mysterious it is, it really could be a volcano. “Magma formed devils tower” (Carlyl Sue). More on the volcano side. It seems to me that it is most likely have to do something with a volcano because magma is part of it and the mysterious way of showing up.

My date stated that volcanoes not only destroy but they also create. Volcanic eruptions may destroy empires such as the Minoans but they also create the opportunity for new empires to rise such as the Greeks, the Romans and modern-day Western Civilization. I found her comment and outlook on natural disasters very interesting. My date was surprised by how powerful volcanoes are. She thought that all volcanoes erupted the same (the Hawaiian eruption).

Figure 7. Stratigraphic exposure at profile 13-6 within the maar crater showing base-surge deposits (D1), bedded scoria from the post-maar cinder cone eruptions (unit D2), laminated lacustrine high stand rhythmite (unit D3), and recent slopewash (unit E). Inset photograph provides a close-up view of the unit D3 lacustrine rhythmite. Figure 8. Calibrated radiocarbon ages (black), OSL ages (gray), and inferred timing of ZSL eruptions.