the volcano is active on the northwestern island in hawaii.
the volcano is active on the northwestern island in hawaii.
what island in hawaii is the volcano active?
the northwestern
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active shield volcanoes experience near-continuous eruptive activity over extremely long periods of time, resulting in the gradual build-up of edifices that can reach extremely large dimensions. with the exclusion of flood basalts, mature shields are the largest volcanic features on earth: the summit of the largest subaerial volcano in the world, mauna loa, lies above sea level, and the volcano, over wide at its base, is estimated to contain about of basalt. the mass of the volcano is so great that it has slumped the crust beneath it a further ; accounting for this subsidence and for the height of the volcano above the sea floor, the "true" height of mauna loa from the start of its eruptive history is about . mount everest, by comparison, is in height. in september 2013 a team led by the university of houston's william sager announced the singular origination of tamu massif, an enormous extinct submarine shield volcano of previously unknown origin which, approximately in area, dwarfs all previously known volcanoes on the planet. the research has not yet been confirmed.
shield volcano