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Volcanoes are grouped into four types: cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes and lava volcanoes. They are:
Cinder Cones: They are circular or oval cones made up of small fragments of lava from a single vent. They have been blown into the air, cooled, and fallen around the vent.
Composite: They are steel-sides and composed of many layers of volcanic rocks. Mt. Rainier and Mount St. Helens are examples of this type of volcano.
Shield: Shaped like a bowl or shield in the middle, they have long gentle slopes made of basaltic lava flows. The volcanoes that formed the basalt of the Columbia Plateau were shield volcanoes.
Lava Volcanoes: Deep sided mound formed by lava that is too thick to flow. The lava piles up near the vent.
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∙ 14y agothe different types of volcanoes are cinder cones, shield volcanoes and composite volcanoes. Cinder cones form from explosive eruptions. Shield volcanoes are composed of quiet lava flows. volcanoes built up of alternating layers of rock particles and lava are cold composite volcanoes
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its a volcanoe :}
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well an avalanche destroys the majority of the state and a volcano does a small amount of damage towards the forest.
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The type of plate boundaries surround Hawaii and The Kohala volcanoe would be the convergent boundaries.
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composite volcanoe.
What is Jupiter's volcanoe called?
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What are the three typs of volcanos?
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the magma in the volcanoe is hotter than in other volcanoes
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when the lava rock is in the volcanoe it is magma, and when it reaches the outside of the volcanoe it is lava.
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A composite volcano.
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2010
Where is magmar in soul silver?
in a volcanoe
