What type of volcanoes does Hawaii have?
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Please I help a lot of sites in Hawaii and other locations, such as Prentice Hall attempted to try this question, I can not find the answer. . . . . . . . . . . . . I would grato know it is a volcano in Hawaii is really great, I need to know what. . . . . .
March 6th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
“HAWAAIIN”
March 6th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Valconoes formed the Islands, from the ocean. They rose from the ocean when the volcanoes kept building on to each other
March 6th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Hawaii has representatives of all three basic vocanoe types. All are basalt composition. There are the explosive cinder cone types, lava flow shield types, and alternating ash/cinder composite types.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
The one big volcano you are probably refering to is Mauna Loa, which is a shield volcano. As one of the other answers states, there are also smaller cinder cones and spatter cones on the shield volcano. Hawaii is not one big volcano though, it’s a whole bunch of them. The big island of Hawaii has three major volcanoes: Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Kilauea (which is currently erupting).
March 6th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Hawaii has these 3 types of volcanoe:
-the explosive cinder cone types
- lava flow shield types
-alternating ash/cinder composite types.
All of those are basalt built and most of them are explosively eruption as POPOCATEPETL(MEXICO) MOUNT PINATURBO(ASIA)….AND MANY OTHERS
None explosive eruptions are the ones that produce thin runnny lava that is low in silica and one of them is KILAUEA AND IS IN HAWAII