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Is mt rainier composite or shield?
Mount Rainier is a composite volcano.
What type of lava and characteriscics in mt rainier?
Mt. Rainier has granitic and basaltic lava types. It is a stratovolcano or composite volcano. The volcano has 26 major glaciers and 36 snowfields on it. Also, it has a glacier cave network, the world's largest, made from the heat from two volcanic craters. Arelativelysmall crater lake sit on Mt. Rainier. The lake is the highest elevation lake in North America. This volcano has dangerous lahars, because of its many glaciers and river paths. The convergent boundary of the North American and Juan de Fuca plate caused Mt. Rainier to form.
Is Mt Rainier an explosive volcano?
Yes. Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano with the potential to produce explosive eruptions.
What type of plate boundary created mt Rainier?
A convergent plate boundary is responsible for creating the volcano Mount Rainier. This volcano is located in Washington, near Seattle.
Why is Mt Rainier smaller then it used to be?
There once was an explosion that made Mt. Rainier volcano smaller. There is very little erosion because the top is always snow covered.
What is the landforn of mt rainier?
Mount Rainier is a volcanic landform, specifically an active stratovolcano, located in the state of Washington in the United States. It is the highest mountain in the state and is part of the Cascade Range.
Is mt rainier a composite or a stratovolcano?
It is both. A stratovolcano and a composite volcano are the same thing.
Is mt rainer a cinder cone volcano?
Mount Rainier is not a cinder cone volcano. It is a stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, which is characterized by alternating layers of lava and ash. Stratovolcanoes like Mount Rainier are typically larger and more explosive than cinder cone volcanoes.
Contential US tallest volcano?
Mt. Rainier elevation 14,410 ft. Still active. Located in Mt. Rainier National Park, state of Washington, 54 miles southeast of Seattle.
What is the most active volcano in the cascade mountains?
Most likely that would be Mt St Helens, but Mt Rainier is getting a little uppity, as well.
Are there tapeworms at Mt Rainier national park?
NO there are no tapeworms at mt. rainier.
Is mountinReaner still a voncono?
If you mean is Mt. Rainier near Seattle still a Volcano, the Yes it is, It Last Erupted in 1884
