Buchanan, who is buried in Lancaster, has regularly been ranked one of the worst presidents by historians, citing his ambivalence towards the South wanting to secede from the Union prior to the Civil War.
A shield volcano is a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid magma flows. They are named for their large size and low profile, resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground.
Volcanoes come in all shapes and sizes. The more common types are shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, and cinder cones. Shield volcanoes gained their name from the fact that their profile against the horizon looks like a shield laying on the ground. The flanks of a shield volcano have low slopes, sometimes only a few degrees from horizontal. Shield volcanoes are the largest volcanic features on earth. The largest shield volcano, Mauna Loa in the Hawaiian Islands, has a volume 300 times greater than that of the largest stratovolcano, Mount Fuji in Japan.