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Composite volcanoes usually do not erupt mafic material. Intermediate material is the most common. The mafic material they do erupt is usually basalt.
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What kind of lava do Composite volcanoes produce?
it has mafic and felsic duhhhhh
Do composite cone volcanoes have mafic lava?
They can. Composite volcanoes vary in what they erupt. Many composite volcanoes are composed of a mixture of mafic, felsic, and intermediate rock. However, in most cases intermediated or felsic rock predominates.
Do cinder cones erupt felsic or mafic lava?
Composite volcanoes can erupt both mafic and felsic material, but intermediate material is the most common.
Does a composite volcano have mafic lava?
While some textbooks might say "no", the real answer is "sometimes". Composite volcanoes are highly varied in what they erupt with magmas across the whole range from mafic to felsic. On average the rock in most composite volcanoes is intermediate.
What Type of Lava usually flows out of oceanic volcanoes?
mafic lava
Do shield volcanoes contain mafic or felsic lava?
Yes. Many stratovolcanoes vary in the composition of what they erupt over time. They may cycle in the type of material. As the magma chamber cools, the magma somtimes becomes more felsic only to periodically receive and injection of fresh mafic magma from the mantle.
What is the most common type of volcano found on Earth?
Volcanoes come in many types, such as scoria volcanoes (mafic, small, not very explosive),shield volcanoes (large, mafic, mild eruptions of large volumes of lava), composite volcanoes (large, traditional cone shape, most deadly), lava domes (felsic, explosive, usually found with other volcanoes), fissures ( lava erups through fractures, mafic), and canderas (steep-walled depression, very large).
What kind of volcanoes are there?
There are four main types of volcanoes. These include shield volcanoes, cinder cones, composite volcanoes, and lava domes.
Is mafic or felsic lava produced in mt fuji?
mafic lava is the KIND of lava produced in mount (mt) Fuji.
Is a pahoehoe a composite volcano?
No. Pahoehoe is a texture found in mafic (low silica content) lava flows which form basalt when they cool. Composite volcanoes usually do not erupt mafic lava but intermediate to felsic lava (medium to high silica content). This makes it very viscous so that it forms block lava flows rather than the better known pahoehoe or a'a. These flows will usually form andesite, dacite, or rhyolite depending on their composition. Such volcanoes often produce ash clouds and pyroclastic flows rather than lava flows. Pyroclastic flows can produce a kind of rock called tuff.
Which type of lava is fluid and flows freely from volcanoes?
It is mafic lava.... not magma
How can you tell that Mount Fuji is a composite volcano rather than a shield volcano?
The volcano is very wide it means that it has mafic magma. The composite volcanoes have mafic magma in them. When the volcano erupts the lava flows down really fast, but hardens really slowly causing the volcano to widen its width size.
