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Yes. Mount Kilauea is a shield volcano. If you look at Mt. Kilauea at an angle, it will look like a big cone.

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No, it's currently a complex volcano. It was formerly a stratovolcano.

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Kilauea has broad gentle slopes composed of cooled basaltic lava flows. That is very much a shield volcano.

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no, but mauna loa is

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yes, it is a shield volcano

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