A Volcano With Rugged Steep Sides

Shield volcanoes get their name from their shape a huge shield laid on its side.

A volcano with rugged steep sides.

Tuff cones have steep sides and often stand between 100 and 300 meters 328 to 984 feet high. St helens and kilauea so different. Having an irregular or jagged surface. They have a very wide base and are much flatter on the top than composite volcano.

A volcanic cone is the hill shaped landform that forms around a volcano. Figure 8 23 shows the mauna loa volcano. Most geologists classify a mountain as a landform that rises at least 1 000 feet 300. Why are the slopes of mt.

How does the type of lava influence the slope. They usually have steep sloping sides and sharp or rounded ridges and a high point called a peak or summit. Sometimes domes are produced by repeated outpourings of short flows from a summit vent and occasionally extremely viscous lava is pushed up from the vent like a short protrusion of toothpaste from. How would you describe the topography around the crater of this volcano.

Strata layers of rock that are similar in composition to one another. The volcano is composed of alternating layers of ash and lava flows. Also called a stratovolcano. Volcanic cones can be steep or gently sloping depending on the type of eruption that form them.

You can see that shield volcanoes do not have the steep mountainous sides of composite volcanoes. Supervolcano a massive volcanic eruption that is rare but incredibly powerful. Composite volcano a volcano with a broad base steep sides and often a crater at the top.