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Inactive Volcanoes are considered dormant or sometimes inaccurately deemed "asleep". This dormancy is caused by the cooling of Lava as it comes out of the volcano, some of it cooling at the top, and over time completely "stopping up" the volcano, making it unable to erupt.

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