GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Composite volcanoes are tall, symetrically shaped, with steep sides, sometimes rising 10, 000 feet high. They are built of alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, and cinders. Famous composite volcanoes include Mount Fuji in Japan, Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen in California, Mount St.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stratovolcano: A large, steep-sided, symmetrical cone built of alternating layers (strata) of lava, ash, cinders, blocks, and bombs. Also called composite volcano, these stratovolcanoes form some of Earth’s grandest mountains rising as much as 8, 000 feet above their bases (movie).

Detailed explanation-3: -A composite volcano is a symmetrical cone with steep sides that are built of alternating layers of lava, ash, pumice, blocks, and tephra.

Detailed explanation-4: -cinder cone, also called ash cone, deposit around a volcanic vent, formed by pyroclastic rock fragments (formed by volcanic or igneous action), or cinders, which accumulate and gradually build a conical hill with a bowl-shaped crater at the top.

Detailed explanation-5: -Composite volcanoes are also called stratovolcanoes. Some geologists avoid the use of the term “stratovolcano” because these volcanoes typically are not stratified and do not consist of orderly layers of lava flows and pyroclastic deposits.