What is the volume of the Hale Ma ‘Uma’U caldera in Hawaii Volcanoes National Pa
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What is the volume of the Hale Ma ‘Uma’U caldera in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park?
Hint: Do not worry about being too precise. Your choices will be sufficiently different so that if you are close with your Google Earth measurements, you will be able to pick the correctly keyed answer. Also, do not be thrown by the volume. It is a huge amount of magma that evacuated from the earth to allow this caldera to collapse and make a hole.
about 20 billion cubic meters
about 20 million cubic meters
about 40 million cubic meters
about 400 million cubic meters
about 20 billion cubic meters
about 20 million cubic meters
about 40 million cubic meters
about 400 million cubic meters
Explanation / Answer
Diameter of the halema caldera is about 3000 feet . That means 914 metres .
Therefore circumference =?× 914 *914 /4
= 655785 sq.m
Depth of caldera is around 200 feet .that is nearly 60 metres .
Therefore . Volume = 655785 × 60
= 40 million cubic metres .
Option c
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