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Do shield volcanoes have high silica or low silica?
Shield volcanoes produce low-silica lava.
Does the lava that forms shield volcanoes probably have a lot of silica or water in it?
No. Shield volcanoes form from basaltic lava with a low silica content and a low water content.
Do shield volcanoes have high silica content in the lava?
No, shield volcanoes are characterized by lava with a low silica content. Consequently, the principal hazard of the volcano is the lava flow rather than the eruption itself.
What forms from lava that is higher in water and silica content than lava that forms shield volcanoes?
Cinder-Cone Volcanoes and Composite Volcanoes
What is the type of lava in the composite volcanoes?
Most composite volcanoes are comprised of Andesitic lava. Andesetic lava has an intermediate silica content compared to granitic with a high silica content and basaltic with a low silica content.
What kind of lava forms shield volcanoes?
Shield volcanoes are fed by basaltic magma.
Shield volcanoes are almost entirely composed of this kind of very fluid lava.?
Basaltic lava (low in silica).
What are the characteristics of basic lava?
Basic lava comes from shield volcanoes, Basic lava is runny and flows faster.
How is hawaiian lava different from composite cone lava?
Compared with the lava in composite volcanoes, hawaiian lava has a slow silica content, is runny, and erupts at a higher temperature.
How are silica and water related to a volcanoes explosiveness?
because
What kind of volcano forms from lava that is higher in water and silica content than lava that forms shield volcanoes?
cinder cone
What kind of volcano form from lava that is higher in water and silica content than lava that forms shield volcanoes?
cinder cone
