What is a cinder-cone volcano?

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What is a cinder-cone volcano?

Answer 1

Cinder cones are simple volcanoes which have a bowl-shaped crater at the summit and only grow to about a thousand feet, the size of a hill. They usually are created of eruptions from a single opening.

They are usually made of piles of lava, not ash. During the eruption, cinders or blobs of lava, blown into the air, break into small fragments that fall around the opening to the volcano.

Famous cinder cones include Paricutin in Mexico..

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Answer 2

There are three types of volcanoes, strata-volcanoes , shelled- volcanoes and cinder- cones. the cinder volcanoes, usually not the largest or highest of volcanoes are shaped manly like a cooled down ban-like cracked loaf of bread, and this unique shape (in a larger and older crater or not) is due to the way they form. some times it is due to the extreme cold weather around it causing it to cool out in the outer layers and keep building in from with in making the ban grow (this is also due to the type of materials the lava is made of and the heat of the lava in the ground itself. you could find these in Alaska island belt? I don't know anywhere else to find some? but there are.. the answer the person gave before me I think is also a tip of cinder-cone? :)