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A spatter cone is a low, steep-sided hill or mound that consists of welded lava fragments, called spatter, which has formed around a lava fountain issuing from a central vent. Typically, spatter cones are about 3–5 meters (9.8–16.4 ft) high. In case of a linear fissure, lava fountaining will create broad embankments of spatter, called ...
Cinder cone. A cinder cone (or scoria cone[1]) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent. [2][3] The pyroclastic fragments are formed by explosive eruptions or lava fountains from a single, typically cylindrical, vent.
Mount Kilimanjaro (/ ˌkɪlɪmənˈdʒɑːroʊ /) [3] is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world: 5,895 m (19,341 ft) above sea level and 4,900 m (16,100 ft) above its plateau base. It is also the highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere and the ...
The erupted volcanic material (lava and tephra) that is deposited around the vent is known as a volcanic edifice, typically a volcanic cone or mountain. [ 15 ] The most common perception of a volcano is of a conical mountain, spewing lava and poisonous gases from a crater at its summit; however, this describes just one of the many types of volcano.
Royal Society Volcano, Antarctica; Cerro Volcánico, Argentina; Mount Mayabobo, Philippines; Bombalai Hill (Sabah, Malaysia); Geghama mountains, Armenia; Chaîne des Puys, France (a chain of volcanoes including cinder cones)
Cinder Cone is in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Cinder Cone is a 700 ft (210 m)-high volcanic cone of loose scoria. [5] The youngest mafic volcano in the Lassen volcanic center, [6] it is surrounded by unvegetated block lava and has concentric craters at its summit, [5] which have diameters of 1,050 ft (320 m) and 590 ft (180 m). [3]
Clear Lake Volcanic Field. Last eruption. 8,500–10,000 years ago. Round Mountain is a dormant volcanic cinder cone located in the Clear Lake Volcanic Field in the eastern end of the High Valley. It last erupted approximately 8,500–10,000 years ago and filled the valley with volcanic debris, raising the valley level to 400 feet above Clear Lake.
Eve Cone is a well-preserved black cinder cone on the Big Raven Plateau, British Columbia, Canada. [1] It is one of the 30 cinder cones on the flanks of the massive shield volcano of Mount Edziza that formed in the year 700, making it one of the most recent eruptions on the Big Raven Plateau and in Canada.