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Vocabulary

 * Sheild Volcano**: a wide, gently sloping mountain made of layers of lava and formed by quiet eruptionsComposite
 * Cinder cone**: a steep, cone-shaped hill or mountain made of volcanic ash ,cinders,and bombs piled up around a volcano's opening
 * Composite Volcano**: a tall, cone-shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate wiht layers of ash and other volcanic materials
 * Caldera**: the large hole at the top of a volcano formed when the roof of a volcano's magma chamber caollapses
 * Volcanic neck**: a deposit of hardened magma in a volcano's pipe
 * Dike**: a slab of volcanic rock formed when magma forces itself across rock layers
 * Sill**: a slab of volcanic rock formed when magma squeezes between layers of rock
 * Batholith**: a mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cooled inside the crust

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 * Outline

Landforms From Lava and Ash
Sheild Volcanoes created the Hawaiian Islands If a volcano's lava is thick and stiff, it may produce ash,cinders, and bombs Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak are California's composite volcanoes
 * Sheild Volcanoes
 * Cinder Cone Volcanoes
 * Composite Volcanoes
 * Lava Plateaus


 * Calderas

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