TYPES OF VOLCANOES Flashcards
1
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expansive and low profile
built entirely of fluid lava flows
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shield volcanoes
2
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example of a shield volcanoe
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Mauna Kea
Mount Karthala
Medicine Lake Volcano
3
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are of land surrounded by one or more younger lava flows
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kipuka
4
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steep conical volcano built up by layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and ash
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Composite/stratovolcano
5
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example of stratovolcano
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mayon volcano
mount fuji
6
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volcano formed from ejected fragments during eruption
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volcanic cones