How do volcanoes grow?

Answer 1

Volcanoes form when molten rock, or flakes of rock called "ash," or a combination of the two start erupting out of a fissure in the ground. The material that erupts piles up around the vent into a higher and higher heap, until it becomes high enough to qualify as a mountain.

Ordinary mountains form when layers of rock break, and one side of the break rises up relative to the other; or when some layers of rock are pushed sideways over top of others; or when rock layers fold into a series of ripples. You can find volcanoes in areas covered by mountain ranges, but a mountain created by some other means won't suddenly change into a volcano.

Therefore you might say that while mountains can't become volcanoes, volcanoes can become mountains.

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Mountains form when tectonic plates beneath the earth's crust collide and the area around uplifts.

Mountains can become volcanoes if they start to release gas, or erupt

Volcanoes can become mountains again when they are- not dormant- but extinct. Volcanoes are considered 'extinct' when they are dormant for at least 10,000 years

but hey i may be wrong about the mountains becoming volcanoes but i have searched on the internet and they say that it's possible...

Answer 2

Answ2. Volcanoes grow by adding more material either to the main vent, or to side vents on the mountain. There is essentially unlimited material in the Earth's magma.

volcanos grow because the plates hit toghether and form a hill.so every time 2 of the plates hit the volcano grows more.when the volcano grows at the size it should be it stays like that.so if the plate coes witchit will it wont grow anymore it will just erupt.!

Answer 3

Volcanoes grow as material from eruptions gradually piles up. This may be composed of cooled lava flows, cinders, or a combination of these.

Answer 4

Well when a volcano hasn't errupted in a very long time and has gone dormant then that is when it could be classed as a mountain I suppose.

Answer 5

the seismic activity underground causes hot molten lava to come into a volcano the reason why it has no top is because the pressure blows the top of the mountain

Answer 6

A volcano grows as a result of eruptions, which add fresh ash or lava to the surface of the volcano.