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Types of volcanoes and its information

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Types of Volcanoes

Shield volcanoes

•The largest of all the volcanoes on the earth.

•The Hawaiian volcanoes are the most famous examples.

•They are low-explosivity.

Composite Volcanoes

•These volcanoes are characterised by eruptions of cooler and more viscous lavas than basalt.

•These volcanoes often result in explosive eruotions.

Caldera

•These are most explosive.

•The collapsed depressions are called calderas.

Flood basalt provinces

•These volcanoes outpour highly fluid lava.

•The lava flows for long distance.

•Some parts of the world are covered by thousands of sq.km of thick basalt lava flows.

Mid-Ocean ridge volcanoes

•These volcanoes occur in the oceanic areas.

•More than 70,000 km long that stretches through all the ocean basins.

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