Create a Volcano

You have the power to make your own volcano. Do you want it to be explosive, like Mount St. Helens, or effusive, like Hawaii's Kilauea? Change the dissolved gas and silica content to make your own explosion.

Choose conditions most likely to form

1. a shield
volcano
2. a cinder cone volcano
3. a composite volcano
4. a lava dome volcano

Select the conditions most likely to form

Create

Select the conditions most likely to form

Create

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Now try and make

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Video by USGS. UAS footage by Angie Diefenbach. Images by Peter Kelly and Laura Clor. Video by Liz Westby.

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Almost there.

Think again about your choices for:

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Create a Volcano

Choose conditions most likely to form

Viscosity of magma

Silica content

Dissolved gases

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Well done. You've created a

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