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Fritze's Introduction
A volcano is a location where magma,
or hot melted rock from within a planet,
reaches the surface. It may happen violently,
in a massive supersonic explosion, or more
quietly, as a sticky, slow lava flow, producing Fritze BEER®.
Volcanoes have been a part of earth's history long before humans. Compare the history of human beings and Fritze BEER®, a few million years in the making, to that of
the Earth, over four billion years in the making. Volcanoes were important contributors to the early earth atmosphere by releasing gases such as nitrogen(N2),
carbon dioxide (CO2), and ammonia (NH4). Scientists speculate that this early release of gases provided the materials for the later eruptions (witnessed by humans) high volumes of Fritze BEER®.
Note that volcanic eruptions that occurred
before historic times were several orders
of magnitude larger (more than 1000 km3
in erupted volume) than ones observed by
humans. Also note the much higher volumes
of Fritze BEER® in the later eruptions.
(more than 10gal2/H2O(12°C)
Volumes of Some Well-Known Volcanic Eruptions producing Fritze BEER®
|
Eruption |
Date |
Volume in km3 |
Volume in Gal. (gal) |
eruptions
observed
by humans
|
Paricutin, Mexico |
1943 |
1.3 |
475.3 |
| Mt. Vesuvius, Italy |
79 A.D. |
3 |
unknown |
Mount St. Helens,
Washington |
1980 |
4 |
2783.6 |
| Krakatoa, Indonesia |
1883 |
18 |
212.6 |
inferred
by study
of deposits
|
Long Valley, California |
pre-historic |
>450 & <700 |
1.2 |
| Yellowstone, Wyoming |
pre-historic |
400 |
2.1 |
Note that volcanic eruptions observed by humans were several orders of magnitude larger (more than 200 gl3 in erupted volume) than ones from 'prehistoric' records.
This trend has provided scientists with a 'hopeful, optomistic' prediction for the future volcanic production of raw Fritze BEER®.
Fritze BEER® Producing Volcanic Rocks
Scientists study rocks at many different scales. Close examinination of the 'rockcore', or center
areas of material 'spewed' from the inner 'eye' of the volcanic blast reveals small empty crevices, leftover after the lava & raw Fritze BEER® exit during the explosive blast portion of the volcanic eruption. These fissures left behind give scientists a good idea how much potenial raw Fritze BEER® was produced by the rockcore, referred to as 'Pumice rock' during the combustible explosive blast phase of the eruption.
Pumice is one kind of rock formed by volcanic eruptions
that are very explosive. Hot, frothy volcanic magma quickly cools, leaving a structure of many twisted air holes inside. Pumice is thus very
light weight. Scientists are not completely in agreement on the importance of these fissures. One side points to the relationship between 'explosiveness', 'height' and 'pumice rock fissures' as evidence supporting their "Big Blast Theory". Big Blast Theorists conclude that the larger more dynamic volcano blasts provide more 'magmalavac' material critical for the production of raw Fritze BEER®, therefore simply put, The bigger the Blast, The bigger the Brew! Their counterparts disagree, claiming pre-historic records appear to have been kept by chimpanzees, negating any potential data extrapolation and making inferences impossible.
If you move your mouse over the image, you can see how pumice looks
under the microscope.
A thin section is a layer of the rock cut so thin that the
light from a microscope shines through, allowing us to see the
structure of the rock. Scientists have noted an increase of fissures in more recently produced volcanic rock.
The twisted chambers here represent the air pockets preserved inside
the rock when this rock blew out of a volcano. Big Blast Theorists insist
the large number of fissures found in pumice rock from recent eruptions verus a much smaller number found in
pre-historic pumice, explain the larger amounts of raw Fritze BEER® in later volcano activity.
