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Mount Katmai (Russian: Катмай) is a large active stratovolcano (composite volcano) on the Alaska Peninsula in southern Alaska, located within Katmai National Park and Preserve. It is about 6.3 miles (10 km) in diameter with a central lake-filled caldera about two by three miles (3.2 by 4.8 km) in size, formed during the Novarupta eruption ...
The term composite volcano is used because strata are usually mixed and uneven instead of neat layers. [6] They are among the most common types of volcanoes; [7] more than 700 stratovolcanoes have erupted lava during the Holocene Epoch (the last 11,700 years), [8] and many older, now extinct, stratovolcanoes erupted lava as far back as Archean ...
An ice-marginal lava flow is a lava flow that comes into direct contact with a glacier or the margins of a large ice sheet. As the lava reaches the margins of an ice sheet, the front of the lava flow cools very quickly to form a barrier. Behind this barrier, the lava begins to pool, ceasing the contact between the hot lava and cold ice.
Socompa is a 6,051-metre-high (19,852 ft) [b] [c] [27] composite volcano [4] consisting of a central cone and several lava domes; [28] it is the most voluminous conical volcano of the Central Volcanic Zone [29] and one of the highest edifices there, rising more than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) above the surrounding terrain. [30]
[10]: 3–4 It is usually described as a composite volcano which is the same as a stratovolcano. [1] [11] It is separate from the present potentially active fissure swarms and central volcanoes nearby and is believed to be inactive. Its original magma reservoirs are believed to have been at 9–11 km (5.6–6.8 mi), and 15–18 km (9.3–11.2 ...
Most of the volcanoes in the Oregon Cascades are either scoria cones, small shield volcanoes, or lava fields, though the segment contains a number of basaltic andesite stratovolcanoes such as Mount McLoughlin. [7] Black Butte is one such stratovolcano [4] (also known as a composite volcano), [9] with a mafic (rich in magnesium and iron ...
A complex volcano, also called a compound volcano or a volcanic complex, is a mixed landform consisting of related volcanic centers and their associated lava flows and pyroclastic rock. [1] They may form due to changes in eruptive habit or in the location of the principal vent area on a particular volcano. [2]
It consists mainly of volcanic rocks that form the largest remnant of a major composite volcanic field that covered most of the southern Rocky Mountains in the Middle Tertiary geologic time. [1] There are approximately fifteen calderas known in the San Juan Volcanic Fields; however, it is possible that there are two or even three more in the ...