Friday, September 23, 2016

Volcanos 

Volcanos in Egypt 

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From what I researched I couldn't really find anything that related to volcanoes in Egypt. From what you can see in these pictures are mountains with the black stops. They are said to have represented volcano's in a way with the high peaks, and the desert surrounding it. This desert is called Egypt's Black Desert, with the high mountains, black rocks topping it and the beige/orange sand surrounding all the "volcanos." So as you can see, there definitely isn't any volcano's in Egypt that anyone has to worry about. The people of Egypt don't have to take any precautions when it comes to them because of the lack of volcanos.

Northern Coast of Sinai 

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This volcano Sinai is the closest to Egypt, I believe. But this volcano does have to do a little bit with Egypt. Egyptian archaeologist said they have found traces of solidified lava that dates back to 1500 B.C. This is to have said to have buried Egyptian settlements by a massive volcanic eruption. Two different things have been said about how the eruption made its way to Egypt. Scientist have said that the wind travelled the ash all the way over, about 700 miles. Others have had said that maybe there was a tsunami like way of lava that made it's way to Egypt killing/destroying the settlements and people. Then there are the people who believe that that's impossible for it to happen. They believe that it came over through the regular ocean currents. 

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3 comments:

  1. great research this week. As you say, your closest volcanic hazards are in the east, along the Arabian Peninsula -see S Arabia blog- and south, at the rift in Eritrea.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift

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  2. Great blog post! It's a good thing that there are not actual volcanoes in Egypt and that people do not have to be on their toes for an eruption. It was interesting to learn about the closest volcano being in Sinai. That must have been a very big volcanic eruption back then to have reached all the way to Egypt. Very interesting!

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  3. It's not surprising that Egypt doesn't have any volcanos but it's surprising that it does have traces of it!

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