Geology
Dante’s Peak (1997)
The movie’s first sequence is a depiction of a foreign country eruption resulting to massive damages with the death of the main character girlfriend. The main two activities associating with the eruption in the movie are lava bombs and mud rain. Historical facts indicate that the events in the movie took place 4 years prior to the movie making in Columbia. In relation to the elastic energy that associates with the volcanoes depicted in the movie, the eruptive hazards portrayed are considerable with specifications on the enormous unleashed power. This is in accompaniment with the resultant effects to the environment after the eruption. The volcanic eruption in the movie with an explosive nature resulted to the production of volcanic ash clouds, pyroclastic flows and debris with relative behaviors posing a threat to the environment. The lava is viewable flowing at the respective volcanoes with thickness and slow movement. The immediate cause of the volcano as shown in the movie is the sudden release of fault stress in the crust of the earth. The movement that resulted caused the vibrations that enabled the start of the volcanic movement.
The eruption as shown in the movie enabled the release of lava bombs that had impacts upon hitting substances in the environment leaving dents with destructions. They are shot several kilometers into the environment from the volcanic vent with greater speed. Several trees die near the lake resulting to the prompts of the perspective at which the trees died. It is conclusive that the trees died as a result of carbon dioxide in higher levels released from the volcano. The town is covered in sulfuric water with ashes posing threats to the livelihood of the environment and the living creatures present as shown in the movie. Presumed as a volcanic eruption, the flaming rocks with varying sizes falling as a result of the eruption crushed homes with people resulting to reported deaths.
The eruption depicted in the movie is considered as the major destructive with effects seen following the alteration of the global temperatures. Sulfur dioxide cloud produced in larger rates contaminates drinking water in larger concentrations. The volcanoes depicted in the movie enable the filling of magma in the hot springs that scorches bathes. The lakes situated adjacently to the volcanic scene became acidic. The movie also indicates of the small earthquake that resulted from the volcanic eruption. The movie also highlights the destructive effects of the resultant earthquake following the volcanic eruption. There is quick contamination of water sources in the movie as part of the negative impacts of the eruption.
The filmmakers of the movie did a magnificent job in the visuals of the movie as a historical film covering a menace relating to science. The nature of the volcanic eruption force in the film has the aspect of nature reverse with specifications to fundamental ways. The blotted sky with falling rocks from the clouds is creativity. The visuals to do with the threats are realistic with familiar involvement in danger and rescue familiar sequences. The use of a nuclear bomb through the mojos was not a good idea following the resulting side effects. In the movie’s first scenery, the panoramic shots of lakes, forests and the mountains are with absolute beauty. The epical effects with a distinctive feature are magnificent in consideration to a bona Fide pyroclastic eruption. These elements give the movie a touch of excellence in production.
The effects nuclear bomb usage in the breakup of Mojo as shown in the movie results to environmental unfriendly aspects. The release of the sooty black smoke by a nuclear bomb floats to the atmosphere. The particles of the smoke after heating up absorb sunlight hence preventing it from accessing the earth’s surface. This results to the rapid cooling experienced with an average of 1.25 degrees centigrade. The smoke in comparison to the volcanic dust released into the atmosphere would put the earth into a long decade of suffering following the initial smoke conflict. There would be much larger impacts on the agricultural sector with less precipitation and considerable lesser sunlight. This would create a larger shock to every sector involved in agriculture.
The precedent of the smoke effects is in relation to the climatic change seen in the movie following the volcanic eruptions that throw the ecosystem of the globe into provisional turmoil. The cloud of smoke upon spreading around the globe would cause crops to fail. This proves how the use of the nuclear bomb is unfriendly to the environment. There are also facts indicating of the significant effects of the nuclear blasts to the ecosystem of the earth. The proliferation poses a danger to the environment as proven following the release of toxic smoke into the atmosphere. The surface blast of the used nuclear bomb during the creation of the movie also results to the release of thermal radiation extensive concentration.
Rock climbing during an emergency involving earthquake incident is not of value. This is due to the rapid propagated seismic waves moving on the earth’s surface that is likely to cause ground vibrations. The movie is a perfect production of the activities of volcanic eruptions with the formation geologic structures and resulting disastrous effects.
