Type of Volcano: Cinder Volcanoes
Last time, we discussed about Shield Volcanoes. So for today's lessons we will discuss deeper what is the another type of volcanoes - Cinder Volcanoes.
WHAT IS CINDER VOLCANOES?
Volcanic cones or cinder cones result from eruptions of mostly small pieces of scoria and pyroclastics(both resemble cinders, hence the name of this volcano type) that build up around the vent. These can be relatively short-lived eruptions that produce a cone-shaped hill perhaps 30 to 400 meters high. Most cinder cones erupt only once. Cinder cones may form as flank vents on larger volcanoes, or occur on their own. Parícutin in Mexico and Sunset Crater in Arizona are examples of cinder cones. In New Mexico, Caja del Rio is a volcanic field of over 60 cinder cones.
Based on satellite images it was suggested that cinder cones might occur on other terrestrial bodies in the Solar system too; on the surface of Mars and Moon.
In addition, cinder volcanoes are the simple type of volcano. They are built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent. As the gas-charged lava is blown violently into the air, it breaks into small fragments that solidify and fall as cinders around the vent to form a circular or oval cone
EXAMPLES OF CINDER VOLCANOES
As we search about the examples of cinder volcanoes they've shown a lot. So we just choose 3 cinder volcanoes...
1. Wizard Island. Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet above sea level, about 755 feet above the average surface of the lake.
2. Smith Volcano, also known as Mount Babuyan, is a cinder cone on Babuyan Island, the northernmost of the Babuyan group of islands on Luzon Strait, north of the main island of Luzon in the Philippines. The mountain is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, which last erupted in 1924.
3. Mount Fox is a 560,000-year-old cinder cone located in the locality of Mount Fox, 50 km west of Ingham, Shire of Hinchinbrook, Queensland, Australia. Mount Fox has a shallow crater and a lava flow that extends away from the southern base of the cone. The cone lies on basaltic lava flows that are 23.6 million years old. Mount Fox is famous for its volcanic crater, which was formed 100,000 years ago by a volcanic eruption.
That's all! See you in our next discussion! :)
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http://www.worldlibrary.org/articles/potentially_active_volcano#Extinct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_Island https://static.rootsrated.com/image/upload/s--ZoiqoEam--/t_rr_large_natural/upuy9vu6f1igupjssowg.jpg
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/types.html https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c9580b667f596bd4cda76492a1ec23af
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Volcano#/media/File:Smith_Volcano_1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Volcano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fox_(Queensland)#/med https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fox_(Queensland) ia/File:Mount_fox_01-10-06.jpg