Question

Mr. Goldsmith described the eruption of Mt. Mayon in the Philippines. He discussed great explosions very high into the air of both lava and pyroclastic flow. What type of volcano, magma, and eruption was most likely involved?

A composite volcano, rhyolitic magma, and plinian explosion
B cinder cone volcano, rhyolitic magma, and Hawaiian explosion
C composite volcano, basaltic magma, and plinian explosion
D shield volcano, andesitic magma, and plinian explosion

Answer 1

The correct answer is A composite volcano, rhyolitic magma, and plinian explosion

What composite means is that there was a lot of lava around it that cooled and overtime the more lava there was the more it layered around and created the comoposite volcano. That is because there's a lot of lava at its eruption. The violent explosion is plinian because it goes high into the air with a lot of smoke and matter in it.