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*** [[[ ICE VOLCANOES OF LAKE SUPERIOR ]]] ***
Volcanoes crop up at several points in the K-12 curriculum,
and you may find that older students (maybe even teachers)
get a been-there-done-that attitude when the topic comes
around again. For a new twist, point your student teams to
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/ice/ with this project:
"Report on all the parallels that you find between these
*ice* volcanoes and ordinary *lava* volcanoes."
Examples: both develop shield volcanoes with strata; the
developing ice sheet is analogous to continental drift and
subduction; water corresponds to magma and ice to lava.
There are many more parallels, although this Web site
mentions only a few of them.
(For readers from warmer climes who have never experienced
the likes of a northern Michigan winter... when you fling
a glass of cold water up into sub-freezing air, smaller
droplets often turn to solid ice before they hit the ground.
That's one of the mechanisms for building these ice volcanoes,
just as "flung" volcanic magma turns to lava.)
Ice Volcanoes is hosted by the Department of Geological and
Engineering Sciences, Michigan Technical University; the
pages were developed a few years ago by IT staff Michael
Dolan and student Paul Kimberly.
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