E-peshawari
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 10
I knew this ... how could I explain it to Josie?
Volcanoes are just a natural way that the Earth and other planets have of cooling off and releasing internal heat and pressure.
Volcanoes erupt because of density and pressure. The lower density of the magma relative to the surrounding rocks causes it to rise (like air bubbles in syrup). It will rise to the surface or to a depth that is determined by the density of the magma and the weight of the rocks above it. As the magma rises, bubbles start to form from the gas dissolved in the magma. The gas bubbles exert tremendous pressure. This pressure helps to bring the magma to the surface and forces it in the air, sometimes to great heights.
It's sort of like the bubbles of gas in a bottle of soda. Before you open the soda you don't see many bubbles because the pressure in the bottle keeps the gas dissolved in the soda. When you open the bottle the pressure is released and the gas bubbles leave the soda. If you shake up the bottle first, the soda gets pushed out by the bubbles of gas as they rush out.
Everybody has done it. The soda bounces around in the back of the pickup and there's always an idiot who just has to have one NOW. It's best if you're at the lake or have access to an immediate shower or a garden hose; otherwise ... it's a sticky day. Somebody is always going to pop a top. Count on it.
A string or chain of volcanic islands can be caused by tectonic plates and if the plate is cracked or just thin and weak, there's a good possibility that the magma is closer to the surface and that's called a hot spot. In a tectonic event, the plates that make up a planetary surface move ... some sliding under and some sliding over another plate.
Loris, the home of the E-Peshawari, is often in conjunction (close proximity) of the satellite, Morg and because both celestial bodies are moons of an enormous gas giant, a planet that may or may not have a very heavy core (center), the simple mass of the giant has a humungous gravity along with the gravity and mass of a pair of counter rotating moons the size of earths it stands to reason that the forces are tremendous. Enough so that the moons are always flexing and the flex causes heat.
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