Name: Wizard Island
Type: Cinder Cone
Tectonic Plate Boundary Type: Crater Lake
and it’s subsequent Wizard Island Cinder Cone lie on the subduction zone
between the Juan de Fuco Plate and the North American Plate.
Name: Crater Lake
Type: Caldera
Tectonic Plate Boundary Type: Crater Lake
lies on the subduction zone between the Juan de Fuco Plate and the North
American Plate.
Photo by Peter Lipman, 1981 (U.S. Geological Survey).
Shield Volcano
Name: Wrangell Type: Shield Volcano Tectonic Plate Boundary Type: Wrangell is just one of
hundreds of volcanoes that have helped form Alaska.
It lies on the Oceanic-Continental convergence boundary between the North
American Plate and the Pacific Plate. Photo by Chris Nye (Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys).
Composite Volcano
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Name: Mayon
Type: Composite volcano (stratovolcano)
Tectonic Plate Boundary Type: Mayon is just one of hundreds
of volcanoes that have formed the Philippines.
Mayon lies on the subduction zone between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine
Plate. Photo by Chris Newhall, 1993 (U.S. Geological Survey).