HPT 101: Lesson 9: Volcanoes and Sea mounts
This drawing shows the famous Krakatoa eruption of 1883. In this lesson we’ll compare the sizes of volcanic eruptions throughout history. We will also look at sea mounts and submarine canyons and think about how they may have formed.
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VIDEOS:
Before we begin, watch these short videos. This is what people are being told about volcanoes. As we learned previously, magma cannot rise from the outer core, but this fact is (unfortunately) not widely known.
NOTE: In the first video, listen for the narrator to say that water is drug down into the mantle during subduction. Remember, we learned that they need this to happen so they can explain water steam coming out of volcanoes. (Also remember that this is scientifically impossible.)
Video 9A: Volcanoes throughout history
In this video, we look at a chart that lists hundreds of volcanic eruptions and we choose 20 to put on our map. We learn how they try to assign ages to lava flows, and we see actual data that proves this method is not reliable.
Video 9B: HPT explains volcanoes, seamounts and submarine canyons
Video 9C: A critical look at the “Hot Spot” theory
Video 9D: Bonus topic: “Mount St Helens volcano teaches us about coal formation”
This video interviews Dr. Steve Austin. It is part of the “Is Genesis History?” series. Dr. Austin does not promote HPT, but in this video, it doesn’t matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjA-jYEWlwU (19 minutes)
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Suggested activities for this lesson:
Activity 9.1:
Activity 9.2:
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SUGGESTED FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES for students using this course for credit:
READING: Pages in the ITB flipbook.
The videos in this lesson hav
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Here is an animated diagram of the “giant blob” they recently found under the Pacific Ocean. Geologists are baffled as to what it is and why it is there. Hydroplate theory predicts that the mantle under the Pacific has experienced trauma, with fracturing and melting. This finding supports HPT!
