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What type of vocano is rabaul caldera and where is it?

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the Rabaul caldera is a Pyroclastic shield volcano. A pyroclastic shield volcano is basically a shield volcano, but made up of pyroclastic debris from earlier eruptions. Rabaul caldera is found in New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

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