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Composite volcanoes are highly variable in how and what they erupt. In some cases composite volcanoes produce extremely viscous blocky lava flows of andesite or rhyolite. In other cases they may produce pahoehoe or a'a flows of basaltic lava. In many cases eruptions are explosive, producing clouds of ash and pyroclastic flows instead of lava flows.

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