Internal Processes / Volcanism & Plutonic Landforms - Volcanoes
Three (3) major types
of volcanoes
Composite Volcanoes -
- avalance of ash bouyed
by hot gases with little frictions and great speed
- Mt Vesuvius (Italy) killed
20,000 in Pompeii during Roman times
- most famous volcanoes
are composite
- Caldera
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- others features - plug
domes, volcanic fissures, spatter cones, and small events
Landform remnants - hard rock resists erosion
- Volcanic
neck
- steep landforms
- often with spikes or
high ridges
- Devil's Tower (seen
in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind)
- Volcanic plateau
and buttes
