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Definitions of volcanoes in various dictionaries:
noun - a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
noun - a mountain formed by volcanic material
noun - an opening in the earth's crust through which molten rock and gases are ejected
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| AVO stands for the Alaska Observatory for these vents in the earth's crust |
| Spiders are among the earliest island colonists after these create a new environment, as at Krakatoa |
| Maui was created by 2 of these, Puu Kukui & Haleakala |
| The Mother & the Father are two active ones of these on New Britain Island in the Bismarck Archipelago |
| The 3 main classifications of these are active, dormant & extinct |
| Marked in red on the map are these geographic features; at any given time, about 20 of them are extremely active |
| Indonesia is home to more than 100 active these, including Sinabung |
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A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. * Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle. Therefore, on Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. For example, a mid-oceanic ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, e.g., in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande Rift in North America. This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of "plate hypothesis" volcanism. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantl |