Tag: Stratovolcano

Category: Volcanic Type

Steep, conical volcanoes built by the eruption of viscous lava flows, tephra, and pyroclastic flows. They are usually constructed over tens to hundreds of thousands of years and may erupt a variety of magma types (basalt to rhyolite). They typically consist of many separate vents. Synonym is composite volcano. - USGS

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Places

Place	Type	AsNotedIn	Locale
Place	Type	AsNotedIn	Locale
Mount Shasta		US NNL
Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument		1001 Nt	Washington
Gunung Agung		1001 Nt	Indonesia
Mount Vesuvius		TC	Campania
Mount Etna		WHL 1001 Nt	Sicily
Mount Taranaki		1001 Nt	New Zealand