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Shield Volcano
circular ground plan. Most cinder cones have a bowlshaped crater at the summit.[1]
ACTIVITY OF VOLCANO
*An active volcano is a volcano that has had at least one eruption during
the past 10,000 years. An active volcanomight be erupting or dormant. An
erupting volcano is anactive volcano that is having an eruption...
A dormant volcano is an active volcano that is not erupting, but
supposed to erupt again.
*Dormant volcanos are the volcanoes that are quiet, but might possibly
erupt again.[1] A dormant volcano is "sleeping," but it could awaken in the
future.
*Dormant volcanos include those which have not erupted in the past
10,000 years.[2]
An extinct volcano has not had an eruption for at least 10,000 years and
is not expected to erupt again in a comparable time scale of the future.