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  2. Stratovolcano - Wikipedia

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    Some have collapsed summit craters called calderas. [3] The lava flowing from stratovolcanoes typically cools and solidifies before spreading far, due to high viscosity. The magma forming this lava is often felsic, having high to intermediate levels of silica (as in rhyolite, dacite, or andesite), with lesser amounts of less viscous mafic magma ...

  3. Types of volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    There are three main types of volcanic eruption: Magmatic eruptions are the most well-observed type of eruption. They involve the decompression of gas within magma that propels it forward. Phreatic eruptions are driven by the superheating of steam due to the close proximity of magma.

  4. Mount Vesuvius - Wikipedia

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    From the 1631 eruption until 1944, there was a comparatively small eruption every few years, emitting 0.001–0.01 km 3 of magma. For Vesuvius, the amount of magma expelled in an eruption increases roughly linearly with the interval since the previous one, and at a rate of around 0.001 cubic kilometres (0.00024 cu mi) for each year. [75]

  5. Volcano - Wikipedia

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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 below the surface. The process that forms volcanoes is called volcanism. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth ...

  6. List of stratovolcanoes - Wikipedia

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    Mount Semeru and Mount Bromo in East Java. Together, they form the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. Mount Agung and Mount Batur in Bali. Galunggung in West Java. Krakatoa. A violent eruption in August 1883 resulted in the obliteration of the three-peaked volcanic island. Anak Krakatoa.

  7. Mount Bromo - Wikipedia

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    Mount Bromo. The Bromo (Javanese: ꦧꦿꦩ), or Mount Bromo (Javanese: ꦒꦸꦤꦸꦁ ꦧꦿꦩ, Indonesian: Gunung Bromo) is an active somma volcano, a Hindu pilgrimage site, and part of the Tengger mountains, in East Java, Indonesia. At 2,329 meters (7,641 ft) it is not the highest peak of the massif, but is the most active and famous.

  8. Igneous differentiation - Wikipedia

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    In geology, igneous differentiation, or magmatic differentiation, is an umbrella term for the various processes by which magmas undergo bulk chemical change during the partial melting process, cooling, emplacement, or eruption. The sequence of (usually increasingly silicic) magmas produced by igneous differentiation is known as a magma series.

  9. Newberry Volcano - Wikipedia

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    1976. 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) east of the major crest of the Cascade Range, within the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. Its highest point is Paulina Peak. Newberry is the largest volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc ...