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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 (low viscosity ) lava , which travels farther and forms thinner flows than the more viscous lava erupted from a stratovolcano .
This list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes.Shield volcanoes are one of the three types [specify] of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow)
Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, which means it's shaped like a shield rather than a steep-sided cone volcano. Its caldera at the top is a few miles wide and long, and about 300 feet deep.
Inside the caldera is a 400 metres (1,300 ft) high lava shield named Dolomieu. At the top of this lava shield are Bory Crater (Cratère Bory) and Dolomieu Crater (Cratère Dolomieu), which is by far the wider of the two and named for French geologist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu. Topographic map showing the volcano and surrounding terrain
Mount Wrangell, (Ahtna: K’ełt’aeni, or K’ełedi when erupting) [3] is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States. The shield rises over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) above the Copper River to its southwest.
Selected geological features near the Skjaldbreiður shield volcano.(red outline). Light violet shading shows the current surface area of the Skjaldbreiður lava flows. Shading also shows: calderas, central volcanoes and fissure swarms, subglacial terrain above 1,100 m (3,600 ft), and seismically active areas. Clicking on the image enlarges to ...
Sierra Negra (Spanish: Black Mountain) is a large shield volcano at the southeastern end of Isabela Island in the Galapagos that rises to an altitude of 1124m. [1] It coalesces with the volcanoes Cerro Azul to the west and Alcedo to the north. It is one of the most active of the Galapagos volcanoes with the most recent historic eruption ...
Waiʻanae Range (sometimes referred to as the Waianae Mountains) is the eroded remains of an ancient shield volcano that comprises the western half of the Hawaiian Island of Oʻahu. [1] Its crest, at Kaʻala, is the highest peak on Oʻahu at 4,025 feet (1,227 m).