geo facts about tambora geologic history of tambora fun facts about tambora
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andesitic
What magma type does tambora contain?
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Dormant
For thousands of years prior to the eruption, tambora was a "BLANK" volcano
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the year without a summer
What was the year called after the eruption?
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basalt and andesite
Minor rock types of tambora?
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salt water fissures
why did pressure start building up in magma chambers?
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Indo-Australian plate beneath the Eurasian plate
which subduction zone is Tambora located on?
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andesitic pyroclastic flows
tambora lava type?
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high-pressure magmatic fluid
what type of pressurized liquid built up in Tambora before the eruption?
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60 km
How wide is Tambora
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Trachybasalt and trachyandesite
major rock types of tambora?
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58,000 to 73,000 psi
Overpressure magma chamber numbers?
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starvation
How did most people die in the eruption?
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Classified Stratovolcano (Contains Caldera and Pyroclastic Cones)
what type of volcano is tambora and what two elements does the outside of tambora contain?
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Temperatures in the range of 700 to 850 °C or 1,292 to 1,562 °F
Ranging max temps of tambora magma chamber?
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3910 BCE
Oldest known Tambora eruption?






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