The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to volcanoes:

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What type of things are volcanoes?

Volcanoes can be described as all of the following:

• Landform – natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins.

Types of volcanoes

• Caldera – Cauldron-like volcanic feature formed by the emptying of a magma chamber
• Cinder cone – Steep hill of pyroclastic fragments around a volcanic vent
• Complex volcano – Landform of more than one related volcanic centre
• Cryovolcano – Type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane, instead of molten rock
• Cryptovolcanic structure – Type of craterPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Fissure vent – Linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts
• Lava cone – type of volcano composed primarily of viscous lava flowsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Lava dome – Roughly circular protrusion from slowly extruded viscous volcanic lava
• Maar – Low-relief volcanic crater
• Mud volcano – Landform created by the eruption of mud or slurries, water and gases
• Parasitic cone – Geological feature associated with some volcanos
• Pyroclastic cone – Landform of ejecta from a volcanic vent piled up in a conical shapePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Pyroclastic shield – Shield volcano formed mostly of pyroclastic and highly explosive eruptions
• Rootless cone – Volcanic landform
• Shield volcano – Low-profile volcano usually formed almost entirely of fluid lava flows
• Somma volcano – Volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone
• Stratovolcano – Type of conical volcano composed of layers of lava and tephra
• Subglacial volcano – Volcanic form
• Submarine volcano – Underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt
• Supervolcano – Volcano that has erupted 1000 cubic km of lava in a single eruption
• Volcanic cone – Landform of ejecta from a volcanic vent piled up in a conical shape

History of volcanoes

History of volcanoes

• List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

General volcano concepts

Volcano-related organizations

Volcano-related publications

Persons influential in volcanoes

See also

References

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