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Shield Volcanoes: broad at the base with gently sloping sides Form from: quiet eruptions Example: Hawaiian Islands Types of Volcanoes
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Mauna kea, Hawaii
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Medicine lake, California
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Cinder Cone Volcanoes: very steep sloping sides Form from explosive, pyroclastic eruptions Types of Volcanoes
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Capulin mountain, new Mexico
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Caja del Rio, New Mexico
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Sunset Crater, Arizona
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Lava Butte, Oregon
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Composite Volcanoes: mountains made of alternating layers of hardened lava and sediment Also known as stratovolcanoes Usually become very large volcanic mountains Types of Volcanoes
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Mt. Saint Helens, Washington
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Iceland
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Mt. Fuji, Japan
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Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
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Mt. vesuvius Casts of pumice ash
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Crater: a funnel-shaped pit at the top of a volcano Cont. How Volcanoes Form
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Caldera: A Large basin- shaped depressions that formed when a magma chamber empties and the volcano collapses into it Calderas
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Yellowstone Caldera
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Yellowstone – Over a hot spot in Earth’s mantle and could have a massive eruption
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Crater Lake, Oregon
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Increases in earthquake activity Pressure from magma on the overlying rock changes the rock temperature The surface of volcano may bulge upward Predicting Volcanic Eruptions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4PUOBIwEv0 Iceland – eruption https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-PKOQZyLTA Ash hazard 2014 in japan (news) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_VyKplXtOM Coca-cola Videos
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