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Mount Shasta is inside the western end of the North American continental plate, west of it under the Pacific Ocean the Pacific oceanic plate is subducting under the North American continental plate. Deep under the North American continental plate friction with the descending Pacific oceanic plate, melts rock in the contact zone which feeds the magma supply of Mount Shasta. As the magma surfaces trapped ocean water flashes to steam producing explosive lava.
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What type of volcano is Mount Shasta?
mount shasta is a stratovolcano
What type of cone does mount shasta have?
Mount Shasta as formed a composite cone.
What kind of lava does Mount Shasta have?
What type of eruption does Mt. Shasta have?a composite eruption which is a quiet eruption
Witch type of volcano is Mount shasta?
Mount Shasta is a composite volcano, (also called a stratovolcano).
What type of magma does mount shasta have?
Basalts and Andesites
What is mt Shasta?
Shasta is a dormant volcano in Northern CA. In the area there is also hot springs and mud pots. The last eruption was in the early 1920's.
What type of boundary is mount wrangell on?
mount wrangell plate bounderies
What type of plate movement is mount erebus?
The Antarctic Plate.
What type of plate boundary is mount merapi near?
destructive plate boundary
On which type of boundary did mount etna happen?
mount etna is on asubduction plate boundary under the african and eurasian plate
What is type of fault is in Mount Kilimanjaro?
Divergent plate boundary.
What boundary type is Mount Merapi?
destructive plate boundary
