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What are the different types of volcanoes?

This is a Caldera volcano.An enormous magma chamber bulges up beneath the ground from the extremely high pressures of the trapped gases within.

A Compound volcano looks like this (when it’s erupting of course). It also has two or more vents.

Caldera volcanoes

An enormous magma from a caldera chamber bulges up beneath the ground from the extremely high pressures of the trapped gases within. 

Shield volcanoes

Shield volcanoes

Shield volcanoes are not the only type of volcano that forms on the ocean floor. The biggest single mountain in the world is a shield volcano that was slowly built up from the floor of the Pacific Ocean over hundreds of thousands of years

Composite volcanoes.

Composite volcanoes are made from many eruptions, sometimes happening over hundreds of thousands of years, sometimes over a few hundred.

What if there was no mantle? Well the crust

would just collapse on the outer

core.