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A steep sided mountain composed of alternating layers of lava and tephra?
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This is called a stratovolcano or a composite volcano.
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What is a cone-shaped mountain that is built from layers of lava?
A cone shaped mountain that is built from layers of lava is called a volcano.However, that description does not quite fit any of the three accepted descriptions of the world's volcanoes.A dome shaped mountain built from layers of lavais called a 'shield volcano'.A cone shaped mountain built from layers of cinders (tephra) is called a 'cinder cone' or a 'cinder cone volcano'.A cone shaped mountain built from alternating layers of lava and cinders is called a 'composite volcano'.
What volano is made entirely of tephra?
composite volcanoes
Which describes the solid flying debris from a volcano?
Tephra
What is the smallest size of tephra called?
The smallest size of volcanic tephra is Ash, particles smaller than 2 mm (0.08 inches) in diameter.
What is the difference between tephra and pyroclastic flow?
Tephra flow is fragments of volcanic rock and lava. Pyroclastic flow is fast moving current of hot gas and rock.
What is a volcano made of alternating layers of lava and tephra?
composite volcanoes
What is mount st helens made out of?
alternating layers of lava and tephra
Volcano made of alternating layers of lava and tephra is what?
composite volcanoes
Of the three primary forms of subaerial volcanoes consist of alternating layers of tephra and solidified lava?
Stratovolcanoes
What is a cone-shaped mountain that is built from layers of lava?
A cone shaped mountain that is built from layers of lava is called a volcano.However, that description does not quite fit any of the three accepted descriptions of the world's volcanoes.A dome shaped mountain built from layers of lavais called a 'shield volcano'.A cone shaped mountain built from layers of cinders (tephra) is called a 'cinder cone' or a 'cinder cone volcano'.A cone shaped mountain built from alternating layers of lava and cinders is called a 'composite volcano'.
What are tall cone shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash called?
A cone shaped mountain formed from layers of lava and ash (tephra, cinders) is called a 'composite volcano' or a 'stratovolcano'. Both names refer to the alternating layers.
What type of volcano formed by alternating layers of tephra and lava?
A stratovolcano .
What type of volcano is made of layers of tephra and lava?
A stratovolcano.
A stratovolcano is?
A stratovolcano is a conical volcano with a steep profile that is composed of many layers of hardened lava, pumice, tephra, and volcanic ash. Stratovolcanoes capable of producing both effusive and explosive eruptions, some of which can be very large. They are the most dangerous type of volcano.
What type of volcanoes are mount Shasta Mount Fuji and mount St Helen's?
Mount Fuji and Mount St. Helen's are composite, or strato-volcanoes. Composed of layers of lava, tephra, ash, and other things.
What a large cone shaped volcano built from alternating layers of cinders and hardened lava?
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano.
What forms volcanic rocks?
Many things can form volcanoes. A shield volcano is formed by quiet eruptions of magma in the earth. The magma keeps piling on top of each other, forming a gently- slopping mountain. A cinder cone is formed when layers made of materials like tephra, ash, cinders, and bombs pile on top of each other to form a tall, steep cone-like mountain. A composite volcano is formed when layers of tephra, ash, cinders, and bombs alternate and pile on top of other layers of magma. This forms a normal-shaped mountain.
