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Kilauea
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when some people think of volcanic eruptions, they often imagine rivers of red-hot lava, called lava flows. lava flows come from nonexplosive eruptions. it still spurts lava but non-explosivley!
Kilauea is a shield volcano fed by gas-poor basaltic magma. It is the gas in the magma that makes eruptions explosive. Kilauea has occasionally produced explosive eruptions when magma cam in contact with water.
Kilauea
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shield volcanoes
shield volcanoes.
No. Kilauea generally produces effusive eruptions. Explosive eruptions are rare.
huge lava flows
shield
they are on oceanic lithosphere.
Low viscosity mafic magma.
They are located at divergent boundaries and hot spots.
No. A supervolcano produces extremely large, explosive eruptions. Kilauea generally produces relatively nonviolent eruptions that are occasionally mildly explosive.
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