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list and describe the three main types of volcanoes...

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The three types of volcanoes are called shield, cinder cones and composite cones.

Shield: it is a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows.

Cinder Cones: it is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as either volcanic clickers, cinder, volcanic ash or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.

Composite: it is built up with many layers of hardened lava and volcanic ash
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Composite Volcano: Steep sided cones formed from layers of ash and lava flows.
Dome Volcano: Roughly circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano
Shield Volcano: A broad domed volcano with gently sloping sides, characteristic of the eruption of fluid, basaltic lava.
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