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- Active Canada Ecuador Other
- Dormant Canada United States Kenya Other
- Extinct Antarctica Other
- Other planets and satellites Mars & Venus
- Pyroclastic shields Bolivia Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Bougainville Other
- See also
- References
This list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes. Shield Volcanoes are one of the three types of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow) {{Expand list|date=December 2009}}ActiveCanada- Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex[1] (British Columbia, Canada)
Ecuador- Alcedo Volcano, Galápagos Islands
- La Cumbre, Galápagos Islands
- Sierra Negra, Galápagos Islands
- Cerro Azul, Galápagos Islands
- Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands
Other- Barrier[2] (Kenya)
- Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
- Erta Ale[3] (Ethiopia)
- Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
- Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
- Mount Karthala[4] (Comoros)
- Namarunu[5] (Kenya)
- Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
- Mount Nyamuragira[6] (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France)
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Kīlauea, Hawaii, USA
- Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Dormant Canada- Heart Peaks
- Itcha Range[7] (British Columbia, Canada)
- Lava plateau of Level Mountain[1] (British Columbia, Canada)
United States- Haleakalā (Maui)
- Hell's Half Acre (Idaho)
- Arlington Cone (Arizona)
- House Mountain (Arizona)
- Hualālai (Hawaii)
- Indian Heaven (Washington)
- Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
- Mauna Loa (Hawaii)
- Medicine Lake Volcano (California)
- Newberry Volcano (Oregon)
- Shoshone Lava Field (Idaho)
- The Three Sisters (Oregon)
- Wapi Lava Field (Idaho)
Kenya- Mount Marsabit[8]
- Menengai[9]
Other- La Grille[10] (Comoros)
- Queen Mary's Peak[11] (South Atlantic Ocean)
- Rangitoto Island[12] (New Zealand)
- Santorini[13] (Greece)
- São Tomé[14] (São Tomé and Príncipe, Atlantic Ocean)
- Skjaldbreiður (Iceland)[15]
- Mount Takahe[16] (Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica)
- Taveuni[17] (Fiji)
- Karaca Dağ[18] (Turkey)
ExtinctAntarctica- Mount Andrus
- Mount Berlin
- Mount Moulton
- Mount Sidley (Marie Byrd Land)
- Mount Terror (Ross Dependency)
Other- Banks Peninsula (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Bermuda Pedestal (Bermuda, United Kingdom)
- Dunedin Volcano (Dunedin, New Zealand)
- Kohala (Hawaii, United States)
- Kookooligit Mountains (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States)
- Lord Howe Island, (Australia)
- Tweed Volcano, Australia
- Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France)
- Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
- Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
- Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
- Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.)
- Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
- Tamu Massif[19] (Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean)
Other planets and satellitesMars & Venus- Alba Mons
- Olympus Mons
- Arsia Mons
- Ascraeus Mons
- Pavonis Mons
- Syrtis Major Planum
- Maat Mons
- Theia Mons
IoIo, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons. Pyroclastic shields{{See also|Pyroclastic shield}}BoliviaNicaraguaPapua New GuineaBougainvilleOther- Emi Koussi, Chad
- Ambrym, Vanuatu
- Purico Complex, Chile
See also- List of stratovolcanoes
- List of subglacial volcanoes
- List of cinder cones
- List of lava domes
- Shield volcano
- List of currently erupting volcanoes
References1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Wood | first=Charles A. |author2=Kienle, Jürgen | chapter= | pages=124–126 | title=Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada | year=2001 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=Cambridge, England| isbn=978-0-521-43811-7 |oclc=27910629}} 2. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0202-03=|name=The Barrier}} 3. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0201-08=|name= Erta Ale}} 4. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0303-01=|name=Karthala}} 5. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0202-04=|name=Namarunu}} 6. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0203-02=|name= Nyamuragira}} 7. ^Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2009-05-29 8. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0202-021|name=Marsabit}} 9. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0202-06|name=Menengai}} 10. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0303-001|name=La Grille}} 11. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=1806-01=|name=Tristan da Cunha}} 12. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0401-02=|name=Auckland Field}} 13. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0102-04=|name=Santorini}} 14. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=0204-001|name=São Tomé}} 15. ^{{cite gvp|vnum=1701-07=|name=Prestahnukur}} 16. ^{{cite gvp|vnum= 1900-027 |name=Takahe}} 17. ^{{cite gvp|vnum= 0405-01-|name=Taveuni}} 18. ^{{cite gvp|vnum= 0103-011|name=Karaca Dağ}} 19. ^Sager, et al., An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean, Nature GeoScience, September 2013
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