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  2. Types of volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    Some of the eruptive structures formed during volcanic activity (counterclockwise): a Plinian eruption column, Hawaiian pahoehoe flows, and a lava arc from a Strombolian eruption. Several types of volcanic eruptions —during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure —have been distinguished by volcanologists.

  3. Cascade Volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    The volcanoes with historical eruptions include: Mount Rainier, Glacier Peak, Mount Baker, Mount Hood, Lassen Peak, and Mount Shasta. Renewed volcanic activity in the Cascade Arc, such as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, has offered a great deal of evidence about the structure of the Cascade Arc. One effect of the 1980 eruption was a ...

  4. Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

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    More than 100 eruptions have occurred in the past 20 million years with a broad range of eruptive styles. [2] These volcanic processes have created a range of different volcanic landforms, including stratovolcanoes, [4] shield volcanoes, [5] lava domes [6] and cinder cones, [7] along with a few isolated examples of rarer volcanic forms such as tuyas. [8]

  5. Mount Pinatubo - Wikipedia

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    Mount Pinatubo[ 4 ] is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga provinces, [ 5 ][ 6 ] most people were unaware of its eruptive history before the pre-eruption volcanic activity in early 1991.

  6. Shield volcano - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Hatepe eruption - Wikipedia

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    The Hatepe eruption, named for the Hatepe Plinian pumice tephra layer, [1] sometimes referred to as the Taupō eruption or Horomatangi Reef Unit Y eruption, is dated to 232 CE ± 10 [2] and was Taupō Volcano 's most recent major eruption. It is thought to be New Zealand 's largest eruption within the last 20,000 years.

  8. Volcanology - Wikipedia

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    The dashed trajectories are the result of lava pieces with a bright hot side and a cool dark side rotating in mid-air. Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma and related geological, geophysical and geochemical phenomena (volcanism). The term volcanology is derived from the Latin word vulcan.

  9. Puyehue-Cordón Caulle - Wikipedia

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    The volcanic complex has shaped the local landscape and produced a huge variety of volcanic landforms and products over the last 300,000 years. Cinder cones, lava domes, calderas and craters can be found in the area apart from the widest variety of volcanic rocks in all the Southern Zone, [4] for example both primitive basalts and rhyolites.