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    A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid...
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    list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes. Shield volcanoes are one of the three types[specify] of volcanoes. They...
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    Source: Kīlauea, a shield volcano, hotspot volcano Mauna Loa, a shield volcano Hualālai a shield volcano Mauna Kea, a shield volcano Kama'ehuakanaloa,...
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    known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes...
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    A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber...
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    base. The largest, Mauna Loa, is 4,169 meters (13,678 ft) high. As shield volcanoes, they are built by accumulated lava flows, growing a few meters or...
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    Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea...
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    The East Molokai Volcano, sometimes also known as Wailau for the Wailau valley on its north side, is an extinct shield volcano comprising the eastern...
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    Mauna Loa (redirect from Mauna Loa Volcano)
    considered to be the largest volcano on Earth until Tamu Massif was discovered to be larger. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano with relatively gentle slopes...
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    Kīlauea (redirect from Kilauea Volcano)
    [kiːlɐwˈwɛjə]) is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located along the southeastern shore of Hawaii Island. The volcano is between 210,000...
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    Madeira Island (category Polygenetic shield volcanoes)
    top of a massive submerged shield volcano that rises about 6 km (3.7 mi) from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano formed atop an east–west rift...
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    volcanology, a pyroclastic shield or ignimbrite shield is an uncommon type of shield volcano. Unlike most shield volcanoes, pyroclastic shields are formed mostly...
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    Olympus Mons (category Polygenetic shield volcanoes)
    Mons ( /əˌlɪmpəs ˈmɒnz, oʊˌ-/; Latin for Mount Olympus) is a large shield volcano on Mars. It is over 21.9 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) high as measured...
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    regularly constructed shield volcano and the largest in the southern part of Reykjanes Peninsula. Another important shield volcano on Reykjanes Peninsula...
  • Caldera (redirect from Caldera volcano)
    habitation continued in India after the eruption. Some volcanoes, such as the large shield volcanoes Kīlauea and Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii, form...
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    shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, and calderas. For example, geologists have identified nearly 100 cinder cones on the flanks of Mauna Kea, a shield...
  • Mount Thielsen, an extinct shield volcano Mount Washington, shield volcano Needle Point Newberry Volcano, shield volcano Pine Mountain, a pyroclastic...
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    Nicaragua. The complex volcano is composed of a nested set of calderas and craters, the largest of which is Las Sierras shield volcano and caldera. Within...
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    Newberry Volcano is a large, active, shield-shaped stratovolcano located about 20 miles (32 km) south of Bend, Oregon, United States, 35 miles (56 km)...
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    Haleakalā (redirect from East Maui volcano)
    Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈhɐlɛˈjɐkəˈlaː]), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive, active shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui...
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