Are there different types of volcoano if so can you describe them?

Answer 1

Cinder Cone also known as Ash-cinder Volcano

· Cone-shaped volcano

· Steep side

· Lava flows through a single vent

· Usually a bowl-shaped crater at the top

· Erupts into the air

· Lava fragments forms cinders

· Examples - Mount Tabor, Mount Zion

Composite or Strato Volcano - most common volcano

· Steep-coned volcano

· Viscous slow moving lava

· Emits gases, ash, pumice, silica lava

· Eruptions can cause deadly mudflows

· Examples: Mount St. Helens in Washington state, USA; Mount Pinatubo in the Phillippines

Flood or Plateau Basalt also known as Fissure Volcano

· Very liquid lava

· Flows are widespread

· Gentle basaltic slope of lava

· Example: Columbia River Plateau

Lava Dome

· Rounded volcano

· Lava barely flows

· Example: Mount Pelee in Martinique

Rhyolite Caldera Complex also known as Caldera Volcano

· Most explosive volcanoes

· Large volumes of magma erupts at once

· Volcano collapses after explosive period

· Example: Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA; Lake Taupo, New Zealand

Shield Volcano

· gently-sloping volcano

· emits mostly basaltic (fluid) lava

· gentle eruptions

· explosions are minimal

· can be very large

· example: Mount Kilauea in Hawaii