CINDER CONE

SIZE, SHAPE, ECT.

• They are small, usually less than 1,000 feet high.
• It has steep sides and a cyndrical shape.
• Built from piles of rock fragments.
• Are melted volcanic rock that cooled and formed pebble-sized pieces when it was thrown out into the air.

TYPE OF MAGMA

• rhyolitic

HOW THEY ERUPT

• They erupt lava, but it flows not from the summit but from a breach in the side or base of the volcano.
• The lava is ejected from a single vent and accumulate around the vent when they fall back to earth.

REAL WORLD EXAMPLES

• Italy's Stromboli and paricutin. Kula in Turkey.