Earth: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)
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
Kenya
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
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
Papua New Guinea
- Rabaul, New Britain
Other
See also
- List of stratovolcanoes
- List of subglacial volcanoes
- List of cinder cones
- List of lava domes
- Shield volcano
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "The Barrier". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222030.
- ↑ "Erta Ale". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=221080.
- ↑ "Karthala". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=233010.
- ↑ "Namarunu". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222040.
- ↑ "Nyamulagira". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=223020.
- ↑ Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2009-05-29
- ↑ "Marsabit". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222021.
- ↑ "Menengai". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=222060.
- ↑ "La Grille". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=233001.
- ↑ "Tristan da Cunha". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=386010.
- ↑ "Auckland Volcanic Field". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vnum=241020.
- ↑ "Santorini". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=212040.
- ↑ "Sao Tome". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=224001.
- ↑ "Prestahnukur". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=371070.
- ↑ "Takahe". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=390027.
- ↑ "Taveuni". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=245010.
- ↑ "Karaca Dag". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=213011.
- ↑ Journal of Earth Sciences Royal Dublin Society. 1982.
- ↑ Sager, et al., An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean, Nature GeoScience, September 2013
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