Yellowstone and Hawaii Comparison Hawaii and Yellowstone both attract millions of people per year. Tourists go to Hawaii for sunshine and beaches, and to Yellowstone to experience the hot springs and wonders of nature. Hawaii and Yellowstone may have differences, but what many people don't know is that they are alike in numerous ways. Both Hawaii and Yellowstone were created by hotspot. A difference is that the Islands of Hawaii were created over thousands of years because of a plate that is moving over a hotspot, and every once and awhile magma from the hotspot pushes up and creates a volcano. In contrast, Yellowstone was formed when a hotspot moved under it and over millions of years has caused eruptions which have shaped present day Yellowstone. …show more content…
A similarity is that both Yellowstone and Hawaii are located in the middle of a plate, but Hawaii is located on the Pacific plate where as Yellowstone is located on the North American plate. Another reason they are different is that they have different crusts. Hawaii has an oceanic crust which is thinner than continental crust, which is what Yellowstone has. A further example of how they are similar is that they are both located above a hotspot. A hotspot is an area of volcanic activity. Hawaii and Yellowstone are both major vacation destinations; they may seem completely different, but they are actually quite similar. A difference between them is that people go to Hawaii to see the volcanoes and go to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful and hot springs. Although many people may think this is a difference, it is actually a similarity because all of these things are volcanic activity caused by hotspots. Hotspots lie underneath both Yellowstone and Hawaii, but they cause different geological activity in both places. An example of how they are different is that Hawaii has the most active volcanoes on earth whereas Yellowstone's volcano is dormant. On the other hand, they are both similar because they both produce geysers and hot
Also, pineapple is a very popular addition to just about anything you could imagine, and the food is usually made to be “volcano” hot. As far as an escape goes, Hawaii is the perfect place to go to experience an amazing new culture.
From what I had learned, Yellowstone National Park was the first national park ever to be established in the world. It had over 3,500 square miles of beautiful scenery and wildlife. The park itself was mostly located in Wyoming, however, less than 5% was located in Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone has been a park since March 1st, 1872, and since then there have been hundreds of thousands of tourists that go there each year to see the amazing things it has to offer. Old Faithful, one of Yellowstone's main attractions, is a
Hawaii has a nickname which is called The Aloha State. The capital of hawaii is Honolulu. Hawaii has a palace called “Iolani Palace in honolulu, it is the only royal palace in the United States”. Hawaii is the longest island chain in the entire world and they only have 12 letters instead of 24 letters. The largest Dormant Volcano is the Haleakala (“Hawaii facts”). One of Hawaii's main rules are that you cannot have snakes as a pet they are also one of the places that only has two different kinds of lava.”Hawaii is famous for its world-class beaches and they come in many colors” for example they are famous for the black beach which is black because of the lava.Hawaii has one of the smallest populations in the United States they only have 1.4 million people in Hawaii which is very small compared to a lot of other places in the United States (“Hawaii
The Yellowstone volcano is very active volcanic system which requires much observation. The geysers, mudd pots, hotsprings and steam vents are all examples of the heat from molten rock of a volcano. For many years the Yellowstone volcano could not be located. There is not obvious signs of a volcano, but scientists looked for other clues. Rhyolite is present in a location that has pinetress and many mosquitoes can be found due to the lakes that have formed. Rhyolite is a very violent eruption, due to the high silica content, it flows slowly, like honey, and tends to pile up and form lava
Figure 2 compares the volume of material erupted from several different eruptions and it is clear the Yellowstone eruptions were of significant size. Three of the eruptions
Watch as dolphins swim the warm waters of Lani's Hulopoe Bay. See the view from the summit of lush Maui's Haleakala. Experience the dynamic energy of Hawaii Island's Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. With so much to see on all of Hawaii's six island, it will be difficult to decide which island to visit
They each have waterfalls that were once dried up from hot climate. Both states have volcanoes and are made from a volcanic eruption. The Big Island of Hawaii is basically a rock formed by lava. Yellowstone in Wyoming is a large, rocky grassland formed by an eruption. Surprisingly, Hawaii has mountains just like Wyoming. The Grand Teton mountains are stunning to look at and have snow on top of each peak. Hawaii has one main mountain called Mauna Kea which has snow on top of it even in warm climate. The activities and food are the same in Hawaii and Wyoming. In Hawaii, my family went to a luau which was like a cookout. Here, they served roasted pig in the ground, sides, and fruit. The food is not much different than in Alabama. However, some restaurants did serve bison burgers and different fish than I am used to. In Wyoming, we went to two different cookouts. The first one was on Snake River and they served steak, potatoes, corn, and rolls. The second cookout on a wagon ride had the same food as the first one, which is similar to food in Alabama. Some restaurants served lamb, bison, and tenderloin that my family is not used to. The transportation in Hawaii and Wyoming is the same. My parents and I had to fly from Atlanta to both states because it is such a great distance. We had to rent a car on both trips. To get around the Big Island of Hawaii or to see hidden places, driving a long distance was required. Wyoming took at least thirty minutes to get from one place to
Out of the six islands that make up Hawaii, the island of Oahu is the third largest and second oldest. Oahu is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and plate at a latitude and longitude of 21.4389° N, 158.0001° W (Wikipedia, 2016). The island was created from the pacific plate hot spot, a still active intrusion of magma. A hot spot is a geological feature where hot magma from the inside of the earth leaks out onto the Earth’s crust through cracks in the lithosphere. Once the ejected magma hardens it adds to the surface of the Earth, increasing the land elevation in the area surrounding the hot spot. Over millions of years, the collected cooled magma breaks the surface of the ocean, forming a small island. The islands of Hawaii were all formed from the same hot spot in the center of the pacific. The pacific plate moves in the Northwest direction relative to the North American plate due to typical plate tectonics. While this occurs, the hot spot in the pacific remains in the same place ejecting magma on to the Earth’s surface. The movement of the plate has
Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest and oldest national parks in American history. Yellowstone was the first park to be protected by private investment on March 1, 1872, and the first to be put under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1918, no doubt due to its unique and inspiring landscape and geothermal features. In fact, Yellowstone National Park is home to half of the world’s total hydrothermal features. These awesome attractions draw an incredible amount of visitors, an average of two to three million each year, to Yellowstone’s immense landscape. The park has a total size of 28,125 square miles, is found in three distinct states, and is considered to be one of the largest
The third eruption happened about 640,000 years ago, and spewed 240 cubic miles of material. This third eruption created the third and largest of Yellowstone’s calderas, Yellowstone Caldera, which is 30 by 45 miles in size. The pyroclastic lava flows from this eruption formed the north wall of the caldera and are visible from the south-facing cliffs east of Madison. (Solcomhouse) This third eruption is said to have vaporized an entire mountain range. Smaller eruptions have also helped to shape Today’s Yellowstone, such as one that occurred 174,000 years ago and created what is now the “West Thumb” of Yellowstone Lake. (National Park Service) Many sources say that a catastrophic eruption, such as those that have formed the three calderas at Yellowstone, is unlikely during the next several hundred years, but if one such eruption did occur it would devastate much of the United States and would have the potential to alter the global climate.
Edgar Allen Poe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman depict a digression of humanity and sanity. Poe presents the downfall of Fortunato in “A Cask of Amontillado, and Gilman presents the same of John in “A yellow Wallpaper”, yet it is out of out of their own undoing. Each of their downfall is at the expense of themselves, yet it is at the hands of another. Neither character realizes the everlasting consequences of their own actions. Fortunato is arrogant and belittles those around him while John fails to understand or even listen to his own wife. They each regard their positions in the highest esteem, and neither John nor Fortunato ever give heeding to anyone they consider below them. This is their gravest mistake and the cause of their destruction. Both stories create a sense of duality, for within their actions, those around them are shaped in similar fashion. Jane and Montresor become mirror images of them. Poe and Gilman illustrate the grave consequences of one’s own action and its effect upon others which is exhibited through Fortunato’s and John’s position and interactions with others, Jane and Montresor’s reactions, and the consequences upon both pairs of characters.
There are many differences between the volcanoes for example the explosivity of the two volcanoes most recent eruptions are completely different Kilauea is almost constantly flowing and has virtually no explosions at all it also has low viscosity lava flows running from it constantly where as MT st Helens is completely different in MT st Helens most devastating eruption in 1980
and volcanoes, and unique food like no other. I know what you all may be thinking: “why Hawaii?”
The Island of Hawaii sits on (almost in the middle of) the Pacific Plate. The Pacific Plate is a giant jigsaw piece of the Earth’s crust that is slowly moving in a northwesterly direction. It moves about four inches a year. There is a basically stationary hot spot deep within the Earth’s mantle. Heat from this hot spot makes molten lava and rock (magma) that rises through the Pacific Plate and erupts continuously on the ocean floor. After thousands of eruptions and over many many years, an island forms a rocky
Essentially, the key fact that makes the islands of Hawaii so unique and worthy of studying is that nearly the entire mountain range is built entirely by volcanic activity and each island is the top of an enormous volcanic mountain. These exceptional qualities fuel the study of how the islands themselves were created, in order to answer the curiosities behind the composition of some of the most extravagant volcanoes in the world.