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- A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a typically conical volcano built up by many alternating layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra...
- eruption. Types of volcanic cones include stratocones, spatter cones, tuff cones, and cinder cones. Stratocones are large cone-shaped volcanoes made up...
- Vazquez, Jorge A. (2020-08-10). "The remarkable volcanism of Shastina, a stratocone segment of Mount Shasta, California". Geosphere. 16 (5): 1153–1178. doi:10...
- inside'. Mount Spurr, the highest volcano of the Aleutian Arc, is a large stratocone constructed at the center of a roughly 5 km-wide horseshoe-shaped caldera...
- It is a shield volcano, though it might also be considered a modest stratocone. Diamond Peak forms part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the...
- Villarrica emerged during the Middle Pleistocene and grew forming a large stratocone of similar dimensions to the current edifice. 100,000 years ago during...
- Peak (Oregon) Usually referred to as a shield volcano. However, it has a stratocone. Cappy Mountain Mount Mazama Over 7,000 years ago, Mount Mazama erupted...
- stratovolcano. The bottom half of the volcano is a shield and the top half is a stratocone. The composition of the current eruptive products of Erebus are anorthoclase-porphyritic...
- The volcano is distinctly conical in profile, leading some to call it a stratocone; however, given the predominantly low slopes, it is probably a shield...
- stratovolcano." Hildreth (2007) likewise calls it a "a glacially sculpted mafic stratocone [...] with a broad apron of mafic lavas." In his argument for classifying...