What kind of volcano is Mt.Pelee?
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It's a stratovolcano:\nhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_mt_pelee.html
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Well, the page linked below lists many of them, but you need to decide what you will count as volcanoes. You take for example Kilauea. Kilauea has erupted from several different craters in the last hundred years, including Halemaumau, Kilauea Iki, and most recently, Puu Oo. Those are a few miles apart. Is each crater a separate volcano?\n\nThe link takes you to a list that is mostly comprised of large shield volcanoes. The island of Hawaii is made of several of those, Maui's got two, Molokai's got three, and the island of Lanai is made of just one. Many of those shield volcanoes have smaller volcanoes on them. \n\nMany of the shield volcanoes like Mauna Kea or Haleakala  have cinder cones on them. I pass two or three on the way to work every day. Are you counting cinder cones? There may not have been a definitive census ever done of those on Hawaiian volcanoes. Diamond Head or Leahi on Oahu is a tuff ring. It was once probably a cinder cone, but do you count tuff rings? Is Diamond Head one of the 40 Honolulu vents mentioned on the page below under Oahu? I don't even know.\n\nDo you count underwater volcanoes? How about the Emperor Seamounts, which were probably formed by the Hawaiian Hot Spot, but which are underwater and stretch all the way north to Alaska?\n\nYour question seems like a simple one that should have a straightforward answer, but it's really not.
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They are small volcanos.
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Mt. Etna's eruptions, while obscuring visibility in the area surrounding the volcano, were captured by cameras on board the Terra and SeaWiFs satellites in recent days.\n\nThe eruption opened six vents in the mountain, releasing a cloud of ash stretching southeastward over the Mediterranean Sea, though the volatile mountain's lava flows have appeared to slowed.\n\nA new fissure cracked open at a height of 2,700 yards (2,470 meters) on the eastern side of the volcano, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, weakening the main lava flow that threatened the village of Nicolosi, a community of 5,000 people. \n\nThe magma pouring out of the new fissure, one of a half-dozen that have burst open on the almost 11,000-foot (3,350-meter) mountain, was heading toward the uninhabited Valle del Bove valley. \n\n"There are very slight signals that the eruption activity is diminishing. I am cautiously optimistic,'' said Alberto Di Pace, prefect of Catania, a city at the base of the volcano. \n\nBut experts say the volcano is highly unpredictable, making it extremely difficult to tell whether the eruptions will stop soon. In the past 20 days there have been more than 2,500 tremors under the mountain, with no signs of any let-up. \n\nCatania's international airport, which was shut for a second time on Monday as thick layers of volcanic ash covered the runway, was re-opened at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday. \n\nFor a week, Europe's most active volcano has been billowing huge clouds of smoke and black ash, and spitting rivers of lava, leading the government to declare a state of emergency. \n\nThe lava flow approaching Nicolosi has almost stopped as it pools in a shallow basin some 2.5 miles above the village. \n\nOn Sunday, the community organized a religious procession to pray that the flow be diverted or stopped. \n\nLegend has it that in 1886 the local archbishop managed to divert a wave of boiling magma descending on the village by brandishing before it a statue of Saint Anthony. \n\nThe magma has already damaged ski lifts dotting the volcano's slopes and civil protection teams were trying to save the ones left intact. \n\nMount Etna is a popular winter resort, but tourism officials say snow is unlikely to settle this winter because of the extreme heat of the lava. \n\nThe last time Etna posed a threat was in 1992 when lava streams headed toward Zafferana, a town of 7,000 people on Etna's lower slopes. The Italian military had to use controlled explosions to divert the flow.
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As well as the rest of the volcanoes in the world?\n...\nPopocatépetl (commonly referred to as El Popo or Don Goyo) is an active volcano and the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba (5,610m). Popocatépetl comes from the Nahuatl words popōca 'it smokes' and tepētl 'mountain', thus Smoking Mountain. Popocatépetl is linked to the Iztaccíhuatl volcano to the north by the high saddle known as the Paso de Cortés.\n\nPopo is currently active. A major eruption occurred in 1947 to begin this cycle of activity. Then, on December 21, 1994 the volcano spewed gas and ash which was carried as far as 25 km away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption. In December 2000, tens of thousands of people were evacuated by the government based on the warnings of scientists. The volcano then made its largest display in thousands of years.
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Indonesia has the most volcanoes, by far. It is really a special place because there seem to be volcanoes all around, in all directions. Merapi (which means "mountain of fire") erupted in January 1994 and killed a few hundred people.
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Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, and as such it has comparatively gentle eruptions (as compared to stratovolcanoes, such as Mt. St. Helens.)  Shield volcanoes also produce high temperature low-viscosity basaltic lava, which contributes to the eruptions being gentle (except in the case of gas in the lava, which can cause fire fountains).\nMore information on shield volcanoes can be found here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_volcano
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The above anwer is nonsense if you are talking about the Devil's Tower in Wyoming inside Devil's Tower National Park. Devil's Tower is not believed to have ever erupted. \n\nThat Devil's Tower (the only other one I know of is in Illinois) was an igneous intrusion. Molten magma pushed upward into sedimentary rock about 65 million years ago and cooled forming Devil's Tower. While it is still possible that it was part of a volcano, there has been no evidence found that it ever broke through the surface and erupted. It was not exposed until many millions of years later the sediment around it eroded away. \n\nAt the website below there is an animated illustration of how the tower formed and was uncovered by erosion. \nhttp://www.nps.gov/deto/geology.htm
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types of volcanoes:\n1. shield\n2. composite/strato\n3. caldera\n4. MORB\n \ntypes of eruptions\n1. Strombolian\n2. Vulcanian \n3. Vesuvian\n4. Pelean\n5. Hawaiian\n6. Hawaian\n7. Icelandic\n8. plinian
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I believe the most recent volcano - is 14 November 2006 at Home Reef, Tonga Island, Tonga.\n\nPumice rafts originally reported to have been from Metis Shoal are now confirmed to have originated from an island-building eruption of the submarine Home Reef volcano. On 12 August, possibly four days after the beginning of the eruption, a sailor spotted the new island after encountering pumice rafts the previous day. The encounter was written in an on-line journal that described the island as four-peaked. A central crater produced steam plumes and occasional bursts of tephra. Data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite showed that sulfur dioxide emissions from the Home Reef area began on 8 August, peaked during 8-9 August, and ceased on 15 August. Based on ASTER satellite imagery from 4 October, the island was an estimated 1 km long with an area of 0.23 square km. The temperature of a small lake on the island was 64.7?C. The island was 0.15 square km, based on ASTER imagery from 12 October. Geologic Summary: Home Reef, a submarine volcano midway between Metis Shoal and Late Island in the central Tonga islands, was first reported active in the mid-19th century, when an ephemeral island formed. An eruption in 1984 produced a 12-km-high eruption plume, copious amounts of floating pumice, and an ephemeral island 500 x 1500 m wide, with cliffs 30-50 m high that enclosed a water-filled crater. \n\nI hope the above is the right answer you are looking for.
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If I remember from 8th grade science the silica-rich magma has a higher concentration and moves much slower down a hill. the Silica-poor magma is much more water like and moves much quicker. It also makes the volcanoe. It would be a cone volcanoe if it was rich because the lava wouldnt shoot out voilently and just run down the sides to continue to form more layers. Silica-poor magma usually comes out violently and would be more destructive.
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A volcano is a geological landform usually generated by the eruption through a planet's surface of magma, molten rock welling up from the planet's interior. Other forms of volcano include ice volcanoes (particularly on some moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune) and mud volcanoes. On Earth, volcanoes tend to occur near the boundaries of crustal plates. There are Diff types of volcanoes:\n1)Extinct--lowest possible chance of erupting.Whether a volcano is truly extinct is often difficult to determine. Since "supervolcano" calderas can have eruptive lifespans sometimes measured in millions of years, a caldera that has not produced an eruption in tens of thousands of years is likely to be considered dormant instead of extinct.\n\n2)Dormant --those that are not currently active but could become restless or erupt again. Confusion however, can arise because many volcanoes which scientists consider to be active are referred to as dormant by laypersons or in the media.\n3)Active--it is currently erupting or showing signs of unrest, such as unusual earthquake activity or significant new gas emissions. Many scientists also consider a volcano active if it has erupted in historic time.\n  \nIt is important to note that the span of recorded history differs from region to region; in the Mediterranean, recorded history reaches back more than 3,000 years but in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, it reaches back less than 300 years, and in Hawaii, little more than 200 years. The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program's definition of 'active' is having erupted within the last 10,000 years.So A volcano may occur anytime as earthquakes do.
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I always like to say the Mauna Loa volcano, which from base to peak is 1-2,000 feet higher than Mt. Everest. 16,000 ft. of it is below sea level though hehe. \n\nThe wording of the question prolly means Everest is a better answer but, everyone else already answered Everest anyways hehe.
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Forces brewing deep beneath Yellowstone National Park could be making one of the largest volcanoes on Earth even bigger, a new study reveals. \n\nIn the past decade, part of the volcano has risen nearly five inches, most likely due to a backup of flowing molten rock miles below the planet's crust.\n\nWhile the rise may not be noticeable to the casual hiker, the activity may have cracked the crust in the park's famous Norris Geyser Basin (NGB), leading to the formation of new fumaroles—holes that vent smoke and gas—and the reawakening of some of the area's geysers, including Steamboat, the largest geyser in the world.\n\nYellowstone last erupted about 640,000 years ago, spewing 240 cubic miles of material. Despite the newly discovered activity, researchers don't expect it to erupt any time soon. Eventually, however, it could explode again as a super-volcano that would destroy life for hundreds of miles around and coat the entire country in ash.\n\nRadar observations from the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite reveal that the jellybean-shaped Yellowstone caldera—a giant depression caused by past volcanic explosions—began to rise in 1995. \n\nAlthough the caldera floor started to sink in late 1997, part of the north rim, called the north rim uplift anomaly (NUA) continued rising until 2003.\n\nMolten rock called magma rises from the Earth's core under Sour Creek dome, a major feature in the eastern section of the caldera. When the magma reaches the mantle layer, six to 12 miles below the surface, it spreads like a pancake before branching off into several tunnels.\n\nMagma flow is controlled by natural valves—one at Sour Creek dome that lets magma enter the system, and others that allow it to flow out. The outflow valve below the north rim uplift anomaly, however, can only pass so much magma at once. \n\n"Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system," USGS research geophysicist Charles Wicks told LiveScience. "But maybe there are pulses when more comes up. That may be what causes the surface to rise."\n\nThe pulses might be more than the outflow valve can handle—like trying to squeeze all the toothpaste out of the tube at once. As the molten material pushes out on the surrounding rock, the ground around the valve expands and cracks. \n\nThis could explain why the uplift anomaly has risen and the Norris Geyser Basin has become more active, Wicks said. Another explanation is that nearby geothermic changes and seismic activity altered the shape of the valve, perhaps narrowing it. However, previous studies have indicated that no such alterations have occurred, and that changes in flow rate more likely cause these deformations.\n\nThe five-inch increase at the uplift anomaly probably wasn't noticed by many tourists, but the changes in the Norris Geyser Basin were easily spotted by some. After a nine year period of inactivity, Steamboat Geyser erupted in May, 2000, and has erupted five times since. Reaching more than 300 feet in the air, Steamboat produces the highest plumes of any geyser in the world.\n\nSince 1989, Pork Chop geyser was active only as a hot spring, but in the summer of 2003 it reawakened as a geyser. Also that summer, several footpaths near the Norris Geyser Basin were closed because of near-boiling ground temperatures.\n\nAnd a 250-foot line of new fumaroles, holes venting hot smoke and gases, formed near Nymph Lake to the north of the uplift anomaly. \n\n"But when the [uplift anomaly] quit inflating in 2002 and 2003, the thermal unrest died off too," Wicks said. "So we think there's pretty good evidence for tying these events together."\n\nDespite these changes, Wicks doesn't believe that Yellowstone is ready to erupt.\n\n"This is probably an ongoing feature in Yellowstone. We've only been able to study it like this for 10 years, so we're still not sure what's normal and what&
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Geologists classify volcanoes in following ways:\n\nCinder cones are the simplest type of volcano. They are built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent. As the gas-charged lava is blown violently into the air, it breaks into small fragments that solidify and fall as cinders around the vent to form a circular or oval cone. Most cinder cones have a bowl-shaped crater at the summit and rarely rise more than a thousand feet or so above their surroundings. Cinder cones are numerous in western North America as well as throughout other volcanic terrains of the world.\n\nSome of the Earth's grandest mountains are composite volcanoes--sometimes called stratovolcanoes. They are typically steep-sided, symmetrical cones of large dimension built of alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, cinders, blocks, and bombs and may rise as much as 8,000 feet above their bases. Some of the most conspicuous and beautiful mountains in the world are composite volcanoes, including Mount Fuji in Japan, Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador, Mount Shasta in California, Mount Hood in Oregon, and Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier in Washington.\n\nShield volcanoes, the third type of volcano, are built almost entirely of fluid lava flows. Flow after flow pours out in all directions from a central summit vent, or group of vents, building a broad, gently sloping cone of flat, domical shape, with a profile much like that of a warrior's shield. They are built up slowly by the accretion of thousands of highly fluid lava flows called basalt lava that spread widely over great distances, and then cool as thin, gently dipping sheets. Lavas also commonly erupt from vents along fractures (rift zones) that develop on the flanks of the cone. Some of the largest volcanoes in the world are shield volcanoes. In northern California and Oregon, many shield volcanoes have diameters of 3 or 4 miles and heights of 1,500 to 2,000 feet. The Hawaiian Islands are composed of linear chains of these volcanoes including Kilauea and Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii-- two of the world's most active volcanoes.\n\nVolcanic or lava domes are formed by relatively small, bulbous masses of lava too viscous to flow any great distance; consequently, on extrusion, the lava piles over and around its vent. A dome grows largely by expansion from within. As it grows its outer surface cools and hardens, then shatters, spilling loose fragments down its sides. Some domes form craggy knobs or spines over the volcanic vent, whereas others form short, steep-sided lava flows known as "coulees." Volcanic domes commonly occur within the craters or on the flanks of large composite volcanoes. The nearly circular Novarupta Dome that formed during the 1912 eruption of Katmai Volcano, Alaska, measures 800 feet across and 200 feet high.
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/types.html\nThe website above takes you to USGS pub called: \nPrincipal Types of Volcanoes.\n\nIt will help you answer your  question.
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Volcano is the result of Lava and gases gushing out of the surface of the earth at great heat and pressure.  The molten lava is running over the land and destroy the plants and trees and after cooling becomes rock there. Fresh lava  comes out and run in the available slope.  The result is a mountain is growing with fire and lava.  Thus the mountains are the result of volcano and lava.  When the pressure within the volcano is reduced the volcano takes rest.It will erupt at any time  and send lava and gases, fire in all the directions.  The centre of the earth is believed to contain very hot lava and gases which is likely to come out at any time in any part; and most likely in the soft surfaces .