List of shield volcanoes facts for kids
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)
Contents
Active
Canada
- Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex (British Columbia, Canada)
Ecuador
- Alcedo Volcano
- La Cumbre, Galápagos Islands
- Sierra Negra, Galápagos Islands
- Cerro Azul, Galápagos Islands
- Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands
Other
- Barrier (Kenya)
- Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
- Erta Ale (Ethiopia)
- Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
- Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
- Mount Karthala (Comoros)
- Namarunu (Kenya)
- Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
- Mount Nyamuragira (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France)
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Kīlauea, Hawaii, US
- Mauna Loa, Hawaii
- Mount Halla (Jeju Island, South Korea)
- Mascarin Peak (Marion Island,South Africa)
Dormant
Canada
- Heart Peaks
- Itcha Range (British Columbia, Canada)
- Lava plateau of Level Mountain (British Columbia, Canada)
United States
- Arlington Cone (Arizona)
- Belknap Crater (Oregon)
- Gillespie Volcano (Arizona)
- Haleakalā (Maui)
- Hell's Half Acre (Idaho)
- House Mountain (Arizona)
- Hualālai (Hawaii)
- Indian Heaven (Washington)
- Larch Mountain (Oregon)
- Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
- Medicine Lake Volcano (California)
- Newberry Volcano (Oregon)
- Pelican Butte (Oregon)
- Shoshone Lava Field (Idaho)
- The Three Sisters (Oregon)
- Wapi Lava Field (Idaho)
Costa Rica
- Tilarán
Kenya
- Mount Marsabit
- Menengai
Other
- La Grille (Comoros)
- Queen Mary's Peak (South Atlantic Ocean)
- Rangitoto Island (New Zealand)
- Santorini (Greece)
- São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe, Atlantic Ocean)
- Skjaldbreiður (Iceland)
- Kollóttadyngja (Iceland)
- Trölladyngja (Iceland)
- Mount Takahe (Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica)
- Taveuni (Fiji)
- Karaca Dağ (Turkey)
Extinct
Antarctica
- Mount Andrus
- Mount Berlin
- Mount Moulton
- Mount Sidley (Marie Byrd Land)
- Mount Terror (Ross Dependency)
Other
- Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
- 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)
- Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France)
- Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
- Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
- Slieve Gullion (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
- Topo Volcano, Azores, Portugal
- Tweed Volcano, Australia
- Mount Charter, Australia
- Mount Tor, Australia
- Mount Julia, Australia
- Mount Cripps, Australia
- Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.)
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
Nicaragua
- Apoyeque
- Masaya
Papua New Guinea
- Rabaul, New Britain
Other
See also
- List of stratovolcanoes
- List of subglacial volcanoes
- List of cinder cones
- List of lava domes
- Shield volcano
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