List of shield volcanoes

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This list of shield volcanoes  includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes. Shield Volcanoes are one of the three types of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow)

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Eruption of Kīlauea in 1954

Erta Ale.

The erupting lava from Piton de la Fournaise met the water of the Indian Ocean during the August 2004 eruption.

On the path to the summit of Mount Warning.

Skjaldbreiður as seen from Þingvellir

## Contents

* 1 Active
* 1.1 Canada
* 1.2 Ecuador
* 1.3 Other
* 2 Dormant
* 2.1 Canada
* 2.2 United States
* 2.3 Costa Rica
* 2.4 Kenya
* 2.5 Other
* 3 Extinct
* 3.1 Antarctica
* 3.2 Other
* 4 Other planets and satellites
* 4.1 Mars & Venus
* 5 Pyroclastic shields
* 5.1 Bolivia
* 5.2 Nicaragua
* 5.3 Papua New Guinea
* 5.4 Other
* 6 See also
* 7 References

## Active

### Canada

* Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex[1] (British Columbia, Canada )

### Ecuador

* Alcedo Volcano, Galápagos Islands
* La Cumbre, Galápagos Islands
* Sierra Negra, Galápagos Islands
* Cerro Azul, Galápagos Islands
* Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands

### Other

* Barrier[2] (Kenya)
* Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
* Erta Ale[3] (Ethiopia)
* Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
* Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
* Mount Karthala[4] (Comoros)
* Namarunu[5] (Kenya)
* Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
* Mount Nyamuragira[6] (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
* Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France )
* Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
* Kīlauea, Hawaii, US
* Mauna Loa, Hawaii
* Mount Halla (Jeju Island, South Korea )
* Mascarin Peak (Marion Island,South Africa )

## Dormant

### Canada

* Heart Peaks
* Itcha Range[7] (British Columbia, Canada )
* Lava plateau of Level Mountain[1] (British Columbia, Canada )

### United States

* Arlington Cone (Arizona)
* Belknap Crater (Oregon)
* Gillespie Volcano (Arizona)
* Haleakalā (Maui)
* Hell's Half Acre (Idaho)
* House Mountain (Arizona)
* Hualālai (Hawaii)
* Indian Heaven (Washington (state) )
* Larch Mountain (Oregon)
* Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
* Medicine Lake Volcano (California )
* Newberry Volcano (Oregon)
* Pelican Butte (Oregon)
* Shoshone Lava Field (Idaho)
* The Three Sisters (Oregon)
* Wapi Lava Field (Idaho)

### Costa Rica

* Tilarán

### Kenya

* Mount Marsabit[8]
* Menengai[9]

### Other

* La Grille[10] (Comoros)
* Queen Mary's Peak[11] (South Atlantic Ocean)
* Rangitoto Island[12] (New Zealand)
* Santorini[13] (Greece)
* São Tomé[14] (São Tomé and Príncipe, Atlantic Ocean)
* Skjaldbreiður (Iceland)[15]
* Kollóttadyngja (Iceland)
* Trölladyngja (Iceland)
* Mount Takahe[16] (Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica)
* Taveuni[17] (Fiji)
* Karaca Dağ[18] (Turkey)

## Extinct

### Antarctica

* Mount Andrus
* Mount Berlin
* Mount Moulton
* Mount Sidley (Marie Byrd Land)
* Mount Terror (Ross Dependency)

### Other

* Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
* Banks Peninsula (Christchurch, New Zealand)
* Bermuda Pedestal (Bermuda, United Kingdom )
* Dunedin Volcano (Dunedin, New Zealand)
* Kohala (Hawaii, United States )
* Kookooligit Mountains (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States )
* Lord Howe Island, (Australia )
* Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France )
* Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
* Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
* Slieve Gullion (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom )[19]
* Tamu Massif[20] (Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean)
* Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
* Topo Volcano, Azores, Portugal
* Tweed Volcano, Australia
* Mount Charter, Australia
* Mount Tor, Australia
* Mount Julia, Australia
* Mount Cripps, Australia
* Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia .)

## Other planets and satellites

### Mars & Venus

* Alba Mons
* Olympus Mons
* Arsia Mons
* Ascraeus Mons
* Pavonis Mons
* Syrtis Major Planum
* Maat Mons
* Theia Mons

Io, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons.

## Pyroclastic shields

### Bolivia

* Sacabaya
* Tata Sabaya

### Nicaragua

* Apoyeque
* Masaya

### Papua New Guinea

* Rabaul, New Britain

### Other

* Ambrym, Vanuatu
* Purico Complex, Chile

## See also

* List of stratovolcanoes
* List of subglacial volcanoes
* List of cinder cones
* List of lava domes
* Shield volcano

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wood, Charles A.; Kienle, Jürgen (2001). Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–126. ISBN 978-0-521-43811-7. OCLC 27910629.
2. ↑ "The Barrier". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222030.
3. ↑ "Erta Ale". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=221080.
4. ↑ "Karthala". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=233010.
5. ↑ "Namarunu". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222040.
6. ↑ "Nyamulagira". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=223020.
7. ↑ Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2009-05-29
8. ↑ "Marsabit". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222021.
9. ↑ "Menengai". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222060.
10. ↑ "La Grille". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=233001.
11. ↑ "Tristan da Cunha". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=386010.
12. ↑ "Auckland Volcanic Field". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vnum=241020.
13. ↑ "Santorini". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=212040.
14. ↑ "Sao Tome". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=224001.
15. ↑ "Prestahnukur". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=371070.
16. ↑ "Takahe". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=390027.
17. ↑ "Taveuni". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=245010.
18. ↑ "Karaca Dag". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=213011.
19. ↑ Journal of Earth Sciences Royal Dublin Society. 1982.
20. ↑ Sager, et al., An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean, Nature GeoScience, September 2013

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