What are 5 volcanic landofrms

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16 February, 20:24

What are 5 volcanic landofrms

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Shield volcanoes:

Shield volcanoes are entirely formed of the fluid lava. These are large structures and are circular fan shaped in nature and thus look like a shield. Shield volcano formation takes place when pressure formed due to heat of the gas raises the magma upward. The molten lava through the central vent comes out and flows rather than explode upward.

Cinder cones:

Cinder cone volcano are generally steep sided cones of basalt fragments. Liquid lava blobs are carried by streaming gases in the atmosphere and comes down to earth surface. Ashes, bombs and cinders piles up and the forms the conical vent. Cinders are small pebble sized melted volcanic stones where as bombs are large pieces of rock. Cinder cones are not more the 350 to 500 meter high. The Paricutin in Mexico and the Surter I and Surter II of Iceland are the best example of cinder cone.

Spatter cones:

Spatter cones are steep sided and low mounds formed of lava fragments that form a linear fissure. As the eruption takes place the molten magma does not cool down completely and forms spatter on the ground. The shapes thus forms are very irregular in nature.

Spatter cones generally consist of highly fluid magma. The Hawaiian island consists of few spatter cones.

Complex volcanoes:

Complex volcanoes or compound volcanoes are formed when there is a change in the eruptive nature of the volcano or the main vent area. Strato-volcanoes can also sometimes forms the complex volcanoes since they gets overlapped after repeated eruptions of the volcano, proclastic flows and lava flows and forms multiple vents or summits.

Other Volcanoes

Apart from these there are few other types of volcanoes such as super volcanoes, cryptodomes, lava domes, submarine volcanoes. The volcanic emission injects sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, water vapor and sulfuric acid in the atmosphere that contributes a lot to acid rain. This is a major effect of volcanic eruption. You can also find types of volcanoes according to activity.