Lava dome facts for kids
Lava domes in the crater of Mount St. Helens.
In volcanology, a lava dome or plug dome is a round-shaped mound created by the eruption of viscous lava by a volcano.
Lava domes are formed when erupting lava is too thick to flow and makes a steep-sided mound as the lava piles up near the volcanic vent. Lava domes have formed in Mount St. Helens and experts say a lava dome is growing inside the Shinmoedake volcano in Japan.
Images for kids
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Rhyolitic lava dome of Chaitén Volcano during its 2008–2010 eruption
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One of the Inyo Craters, an example of a rhyolite dome
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The bulging cryptodome of Mt. St. Helens on April 27, 1980
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Soufrière Hills lava spine before the 1997 eruption
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Chao dacite coulée flow-domes (left center), northern Chile, viewed from Landsat 8
See also
In Spanish: Domo de lava para niños
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