• Question: what makes a volcano explode

    Asked by 405thuc26 to Mako, Claire, Liad, Ryan on 24 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by alimoh, Kitcat.
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      Ryan Cheale answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      So under the earth there is huge chambers of magma and lava just moving around, at some points on the earth the crust isn’t as thick and the pressure underneath pushes up creating a volcano shape \(think spots!) Sometimes these chambers overfill and create huge pressure!! When this happens it can only go up, and (like a spot) it explodes letting out all the pressure and upcomes lava and rocks and ash!

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