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- Volcanoes
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- Volcanoes come in different shapes
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- and sizes, depending on the
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- makeup of the magma, the style of
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- the eruption, and how often they
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- erupt. The major types of
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- volcanoes, roughly in order of
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- increasing size, are cinder cones,
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- composite volcanoes (also called
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- stratovolcanoes), shield volcanoes,
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- calderas, and plateaus. Calderas
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- and plateaus are shaped differently
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- than traditional volcanoes�neither
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- has a mountain-like shape.