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Is it true that a composite volcano have both quiet and explosive options?
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Yes. The ash and cinder layers are from explosive eruptions while the lava flows are from non-explosive eruptions.
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Does a composite volcano have both quiet and explosive eruptions?
yes a composite volano is both quiet and explosive
Does a composite volcano erupt quietly or explosively?
A composite volcano is the most explosive type of volcano there is. Mt. St. Helens and Mt.Vesuvious in Pompeii are both examples of composite volcanoes, and look at the damage they did. a composite volcano usually has pyroclastic flows to accompany the traditional lava and ash.
How does the type of volcano composite cone rupture?
Answer by FutureLPGAgolferComposite Cone - Alternation between quiet and explosive volcanoes.
What kind of eruption quiet explosive or both at different times would you expect to come from a cinder cone volcano composite volcano and a shield volcano?
Sheild volcanoes generally erupt "quietly."
A volcano built from both quiet and explosive eruptions?
Surprisingly, yes. There's a volcano in New Zealand, Mt. Egmond that was made from both, a composite volcano.
What kind of volcano is mt st Helen's?
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano.
Was mauna loa a quiet or explosive eruption?
No, Mauna Loa is not an explosive volcano. It tends to be non-explosive.
What are a volcano's stages of activity?
quiet and explosive
Is mount merapi a quiet or explosive volcano?
quiet low silicia
Is a composite volcano quiet or loud?
OH MY GOSH! IT'S A VOLCANO!!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK??? INCASE THAT WASNT ENOUGH, LET ME SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU........................LOUD!well some volcanoes are loud but some are quiet
How does Silica determine if the volcano will be quiet or explosive?
Silica will determine if the volcano will be quiet or explosive by building itself up in the volcano pipe, plugging it up like a cork in a bottle and then exploding.
Does Mount Fuji have a quiet or explosive eruption?
maybe it is quiet or violent but my best answer is violent i saw it in the books of science sorry if your answer is quite just choose the right answer:)
