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Volcanic Landforms
• Ash or Cinder cone- Circular, cooling of granitic lava
around the crater
– average height- 300 m
– Concave sloped sides
• Basic lava cone (Shield)- Flatter, cooling of basic lavawide base, low slope, cools as sheets
• Composite cone- Largest and highest of all types
– Lava deposited parallely on top of each other
• Caldera- large roughly circular depression
• Crater Lake- Funnel shaped crater filled with rain