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  • Stratovolcanoes: Characteristics, Formation, and Types
    The answer you're looking for is a stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano.

    Here's why:

    * Stratovolcanoes are known for their tall, conical shape with steep sides. They are built up by layers (strata) of hardened lava flows, ash, and tephra.

    * Cinder cones are smaller volcanoes with steep sides formed from eruptions of pyroclastic material (cinders and ash).

    * Shield volcanoes have broad, gently sloping sides formed from fluid lava flows.

    * Calderas are large, bowl-shaped depressions formed by the collapse of a volcano after a major eruption.

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