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Volcanic Environments
Match up the volcano with it’s location
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Source images wikipedia / USGS
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Submarine volcano erupting
under the ocean at the Mid
Atlantic ridge, a tensional
(divergent) plate margin.
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Composite cone volcano forming
part of an island arc at a
compressional margin where two
oceanic plates meet and one is
subducted under the other.
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Composite (stratovolcano)
volcano found at a
compressional margin where an
oceanic plate is subducted
beneath a continental plate.
Lava is acidic and viscous.
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Shield volcano formed at a
hotspot in the earth’s crust. Lava
is basic and runny. Eruption is
non-violent.
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Caldera formed by collapse of
magma chamber.
Crater Lake is an example.
Super volcanoes are very large
calderas.
Source images wikipedia / USGS
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Pacific Ring Of Fire