TYPES OF

VOLCANOES
 COMPOSITE

1. Mayon Volcano

Mayon is an active stratovolcano in the province of Naga in Bicol Region, on

the large island of Luzon in the Philippines. Renowned as the “perfect cone”
because of its symmetric conical shape, the volcano with its surrounding
landscape was declared a national park on July 20 of 1938, the first in the
nation. It was reclassified a Natural Park and renamed as the Mayon Volcano
Natural Park in 2000.

2. Mt. Fuji
Mount Fuji located on Honshu Island, is the highest mountain in Japan at
3,776.24 m (12,389 ft).[1] It is an active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–
1708.[5][6] Mount Fuji lies about 100 kilometres (60 mi) south-west of Tokyo,
and can be seen from there on a clear day.

CINDER CONES

1. Paricutin
Paricutín presented the first occasion for modern science to document the full life cycle
of an eruption of this type. During the volcano's 9 years of activity, scientists sketched
and mapped it and took thousands of samples and photographs. By 1952, the eruption
had left a 424-meter-high (1,391 ft) cone and significantly damaged an area of more than
233 square kilometres (90 sq mi) with the ejection of stone, ash and lava. Three people
were killed, two towns were completely evacuated and buried by lava and three others
were heavily affected. Hundreds of people had to be permanently relocated, and two

new towns were created to accommodate their migration.

 2. Cerro Negro

Cerro Negro is an active volcano in the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain

range in Nicaragua, about 10 km from the village of Malpaisillo. It is a very
new volcano, the youngest in Central America, having first appeared in April
1850.

SHIELD CONES

1. Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S.
state of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean. The largest subaerial volcano in both mass and
volume, Mauna Loa has historically been considered the largest volcano on Earth,
dwarfed only by Tamu Massif. It is an active shield volcano with relatively gentle slopes,
with a volume estimated at approximately 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km3),[4] although its
peak is about 120 feet (37 m) lower than that of its neighbor, Mauna Kea. Lava eruptions

from Mauna Loa are silica-poor and very fluid, and they tend to be non-explosive.

2. Piton de la Fournaise

Piton de la Fournaise is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island in

the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along
with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands (Pacific Ocean), Stromboli, Etna (Italy) and Mount
Erebus in Antarctica. A previous eruption began in August 2006 and ended in January
2007. The volcano erupted again in February 2007, on 21 September 2008, on 9
December 2010, which lasted for two days.[2] and on 1 August 2015.[3] The most recent
eruption began on 14 July 2017.[4] The volcano is located within Réunion National Park, a
World Heritage site.
 VOLCANIC DOME

1. Novarupta

The eruption of Novarupta in the Aleutian Range began on June 6, 1912, and culminated
in a series of violent eruptions. Rated a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the 60-hour-
long eruption expelled 13 to 15 cubic kilometers (3.1 to 3.6 cu mi) of ash, 30 times as
much as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The erupted magma of Rhyolite, Dacite,
and Andesite resulted in more than 17 cubic kilometers (4.1 cu mi) of air fall tuffand

approximately 11 cubic kilometers (2.6 cu mi) of pyroclastic ash-flow tuff.

2. Lassen Peak
Lassen Peak, commonly referred to as Mount Lassen, is the southernmost active
volcano in the Cascade Range of the Western United States. Located in the Shasta
Cascade region of Northern California, it is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, which
stretches from southwestern British Columbia to northern California. Lassen Peak reaches
an elevation of 10,457 feet (3,187 m), standing above the northern Sacramento Valley. It
supports many flora and fauna among its diverse habitats, which are subject to frequent
snowfall and reach high elevations.

A lava dome, Lassen Peak has a volume of 0.6 cubic miles (2.5 km3) making it one of the
largest lava domes on Earth. The volcano arose from the destroyed northern flank of
now-collapsed Mount Tehama about 27,000 years ago, from a series of eruptions over
the course of a few years. Since 25,000 years ago, the mountain has been significantly
eroded by glaciers, and it is now covered in talus deposits.