It could mean a volcano that erupts regularly but is ... Mount Rainier in Washington is a famous stratovolcano. Shield volcanoes are big, broad volcanoes made up of oozy lava flows that erupt ...

Mount Nyamuragira is a shield volcano, which means it is dome-shaped ... On the other hand, Mount Nyiragongo, a stratovolcano with a steeper cone shape, towers higher at 11,385 feet (3,470 meters ...

Mount St Helens is a stratovolcano in the United States that famously erupted ... although they can still reach great heights. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano on the planet Mars. It’s the largest ...

Uturuncu stands over 19,700 feet high and is a stratovolcano—a large, steep, cone-shaped volcano built up by layers of hardened lava, volcanic ash and rock. Mount St. Helens and Mount Vesuvius ...

But as a shield volcano, Kilauea doesn’t have explosive, Mt. St. Helens-type eruptions. Instead, it emits a steady stream of fluid lava that generally flows gently down the side of the mountain ...

Popocatépetl volcano just outside Mexico City has been ... Popocatépetl is a stratovolcano capable of catastrophic, explosive eruptions, the last of which came around the year 800.