The primary threat from a shield volcano is flowing lava. These flows generally move fairly slowly. While they can be destructive, people can usually evacuate in time without much difficulty. Composite volcanoes produce a variety of hazards, the most dangerous of which are pyroclastic flows. These superheated avalanches of ash, rock, and gas can moved at well over 100 mph, scorching everything in their path and giving no time to escape. There are also mudflows called lahars that can bury villages and falling ash that can collapse roofs and clog the lungs
Laki is not a shield volcano or a composite volcano. It is actually a volcanic fissure in Iceland that erupted in 1783, causing significant environmental and climatic impacts.
The arenal volcano is a cindercone volcano not a composite.
Stratovolcano (a composite volcano)
A composite volcano is most likely to form at subduction zones where an oceanic plate is being subducted beneath a continental plate. The interaction between the two plates causes magma to rise, leading to the formation of a composite volcano due to the explosive eruptions caused by the high silica content in the magma.
Annapurna Mountain.
Composite Cone
False. The greatest hazard comes from pyroclastic flows.
No. It is a composite volcano.
a active volcano
Mount Fuji is a composite volcano.
The type of volcano appears most in the news are composite and cinder cone
No. Kilauea is not a composite volcano. It is a shield Volcano.
Yes. Mount Hood is a composite volcano.
Krakatoa is a composite volcano.
it is a composite volcano
Composite or Strato Volcanoes.
A stratovolcano is sometimes called a composite volcano, yes.