List of shield volcanoes
This list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes. Shield Volcanoes are one of the three types of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow)
Eruption of Kīlauea in 1954
The erupting lava from Piton de la Fournaise met the water of the Indian Ocean during the August 2004 eruption.
On the path to the summit of Mount Warning.
Skjaldbreiður as seen from Þingvellir
Active
Canada
- Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex[1] (British Columbia, Canada)
Ecuador
Other
- Barrier[2] (Kenya)
- Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
- Erta Ale[3] (Ethiopia)
- Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
- Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
- Mount Karthala[4] (Comoros)
- Namarunu[5] (Kenya)
- Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
- Mount Nyamuragira[6] (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France)
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Kīlauea, Hawaii, USA
- Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Dormant
Canada
- Heart Peaks
- Itcha Range[7] (British Columbia, Canada)
- Lava plateau of Level Mountain[1] (British Columbia, Canada)
United States
- Haleakalā (Maui)
- Hell's Half Acre (Idaho)
- Arlington Cone (Arizona)
- House Mountain (Arizona)
- Hualālai (Hawaii)
- Indian Heaven (Washington)
- Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
- Mauna Loa (Hawaii)
- Medicine Lake Volcano (California)
- Newberry Volcano (Oregon)
- Shoshone Lava Field (Idaho)
- The Three Sisters (Oregon)
- Wapi Lava Field (Idaho)
Kenya
Other
- La Grille[10] (Comoros)
- Queen Mary's Peak[11] (South Atlantic Ocean)
- Rangitoto Island[12] (New Zealand)
- Santorini[13] (Greece)
- São Tomé[14] (São Tomé and Príncipe, Atlantic Ocean)
- Skjaldbreiður (Iceland)[15]
- Kollóttadyngja (Iceland)
- Trölladyngja (Iceland)
- Mount Takahe[16] (Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica)
- Taveuni[17] (Fiji)
- Karaca Dağ[18] (Turkey)
Extinct
Antarctica
Other
- Banks Peninsula (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Bermuda Pedestal (Bermuda, United Kingdom)
- Dunedin Volcano (Dunedin, New Zealand)
- Kohala (Hawaii, United States)
- Kookooligit Mountains (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States)
- Lord Howe Island, (Australia)
- Tweed Volcano, Australia
- Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France)
- Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
- Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
- Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
- Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.)
- Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
- Tamu Massif[19] (Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean)
Other planets and satellites
Mars & Venus
- Alba Mons
- Olympus Mons
- Arsia Mons
- Ascraeus Mons
- Pavonis Mons
- Syrtis Major Planum
- Maat Mons
- Theia Mons
Io
Io, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons.
Pyroclastic shields
Bolivia
Papua New Guinea
Other
- Emi Koussi, Chad
- Ambrym, Vanuatu
- Purico Complex, Chile
See also
References
- Wood, Charles A.; Kienle, Jürgen (2001). Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–126. ISBN 978-0-521-43811-7. OCLC 27910629.
- "The Barrier". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Erta Ale". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Karthala". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Namarunu". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Nyamuragira". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2009-05-29
- "Marsabit". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Menengai". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "La Grille". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Tristan da Cunha". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Auckland Field". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Santorini". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "São Tomé". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Prestahnukur". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Takahe". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Taveuni". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- "Karaca Dağ". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- Sager, et al., An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean, Nature GeoScience, September 2013
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