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How are Volcanos tied to the moon? Tidal Lunacy is more about Hawaii and surfing than were wolves but don't take our word for it...find out more by watching this video.


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all right Shmoopers we got another passage that we're gonna read from this

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one's on title lunacy yeah Hawaiian Observatory volcanoes and surfing and [text on screen]

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all that stuff yeah someone passed the pineapple

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all right well normally we would skim but this is kind of a science II

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document so since the questions can be ludicrously specific we're actually

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gonna start with the question and then let the skimming kind of speak for

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itself or read for itself or whatever skimming does so here we go first

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question of the series is according to the passage volcanic eruptions are what

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let's go back here now and we're just gonna kind of skim a little bit on the

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surface till things are not relevant history ball they sacrifice key for that

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doesn't they're asking alone all right well I think about here the answer is a

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well how do we get that who knew volcanoes were so affected by the moon [smoking volcano]

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well the way they grow fur and claws and roam the countryside eating yeah no wait [werewolf]

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those are werewolves all right study at the heart of this passage concluded that [text on screen]

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out of 680 eruptions studied the probability of an eruption is greatest

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at times of maximal tidal amplitude see we got it right there maximal tides are

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referred to in the article as fortnightly tides that occur when the

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moon is lined up with the Sun so you couldn't let that fortnightly word there

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throw yeah it sounds like something Lincoln said in a speech right well [Lincoln]

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there's a difference between a maximal tide one and a high tide which is why we [ocean tide]

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can't say that volcanic eruptions are less likely to occur at low tide so get [text on screen]

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rid of that one likewise we can't make any claims about regular high tide

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versus a decaf low tide so get rid of sea there unlike werewolves maximal

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tides occur at both full and New Moon's and the article doesn't differentiate

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between the two when it comes to influencing volcanic eruptions so it is

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and we're glad we skimmed this passage before you know the full moon

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you

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