Sentence examples for composite volcano from inspiring English sources

Krakatoa (Krakatau), a composite volcano on a small uninhabited island between Sumatra and Java, erupted explosively on August 26 27, 1883.

The monument provides a unique opportunity for scientific study of the dynamics of an active composite volcano and for research on how ecosystems respond to cataclysmic disturbances.

Ontake Volcano is a composite volcano in central Japan (Fig. 1).

The Miocene Yamanlar composite volcano is located in the central part of a shear zone in western Turkey.

Adatara is a large composite volcano on the volcanic front of the Northeast Japan arc (Fig. 1).

Tateyama volcano (also called Midagahara volcano) is a composite volcano located in the Hida Mountains (Figure 1).

Except for the Izu-Tobu monogenetic volcanoes, the others are composite volcanoes from basalt to rhyolite in composition; some volcanoes include caldera-forming events.

For this reason many geologists refer to stratovolcanoes as composite volcanoes.

Mount Unzen actually consists of a group of composite volcanoes located on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula east of Nagasaki.

Most of the composite volcanoes of the Cascades Range in Oregon and Washington in the northwestern United States are characteristically calc-alkalic.

Mount Unzen is actually a group of composite volcanoes, the highest of which is Mount Fugen, at 4,462 feet (1,360 m).