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An old, Pleistocene stratovolcano southeast of the more active and most likely younger Hokkaido Koma-ga-take. Yokotsu has a flank vent on its east to southeast side. Yokotsu has a flank vent on its east to southeast side.
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a typically conical volcano built up by many alternating layers of hardened lava and tephra. [1] Unlike shield volcanoes , stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and explosive eruptions. [ 2 ]
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Chimborazo, for example, is located nearly equidistant from the two off the Pan-American Highway. “More and more, people have started coming to train and prepare for big challenges at Chimborazo ...
The east side of Mount Baker in 2001. Sherman Crater is the deep depression south of the summit. Mount Baker (Nooksack: Kweq' Smánit; Lushootseed: təqʷubəʔ), [9] also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active [10] glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano [4] in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States.
The type is named after Mount Somma ("Summit"), a stratovolcano in southern Italy [1] with a summit caldera in which the upper cone of Mount Vesuvius has grown. Other examples of somma volcanoes can be found on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, stretching south from Kamchatka to Hokkaidō, Japan. [citation needed]