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What is an andesitic stratovolcano?In: Earth Sciences |
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Andesitic strato volcanoes are the classic,tall,cone shaped large volcanoes containing both lava & pyroclastic materials.The erruptions are explosive,(which depends on the viscosity of the magma which in turn again depends upon the amount of silica present in magma).Examples are mountains formed at ocean-continent convergent plate boundaries.
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