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    A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust through which magma, lava, volcanic ash, and gases can escape from the magma chamber below. Volcanoes form at plate boundaries where tectonic plates are moving apart or coming together, or in the interior of plates due to stretching of the crust. Large volcanic eruptions can have widespread effects by cooling the atmosphere with ash and sulfuric acid, which can lead to catastrophic famines through volcanic winters.

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    A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust through which magma, lava, volcanic ash, and gases can escape from the magma chamber below. Volcanoes form at plate boundaries where tectonic plates are moving apart or coming together, or in the interior of plates due to stretching of the crust. Large volcanic eruptions can have widespread effects by cooling the atmosphere with ash and sulfuric acid, which can lead to catastrophic famines through volcanic winters.

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    A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust through which magma, lava, volcanic ash, and gases can escape from the magma chamber below. Volcanoes form at plate boundaries where tectonic plates are moving apart or coming together, or in the interior of plates due to stretching of the crust. Large volcanic eruptions can have widespread effects by cooling the atmosphere with ash and sulfuric acid, which can lead to catastrophic famines through volcanic winters.

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    A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust through which magma, lava, volcanic ash, and gases can escape from the magma chamber below. Volcanoes form at plate boundaries where tectonic plates are moving apart or coming together, or in the interior of plates due to stretching of the crust. Large volcanic eruptions can have widespread effects by cooling the atmosphere with ash and sulfuric acid, which can lead to catastrophic famines through volcanic winters.

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    A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the surface or crust of the Earth or a planetary mass object, which allows hot lava,

    volcanic ash and gases to escape from the magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are not usually created where two tectonic plates slide past one another. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust in the interiors of plates, e.g., in the East African Rift, the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America. This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of "Plate hypothesis" volcanism.[1] Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes. These so-called "hotspots", for example Hawaii, are postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs with magma from the core mantle boundary, 3,000 km deep in the Earth. Erupting volcanoes can pose many hazards, not only in the immediate vicinity of the eruption. Volcanic ash can be a threat to aircraft, in particular those with jet engines where ash particles can be melted by the high operating temperature; the melted particles then adhere to the turbine blades and alter their shape, disrupting the operation of the turbine. Large eruptions can affect temperature as ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscure the sun and cool the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere; however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the stratosphere. Historically, so-called volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines.

    Volcanic features

    The most common perception of a volcano is of a conical mountain, spewing lava and poisonous gases from a crater at its summit. This describes just one of many types of volcano, and the features of volcanoes are much more complicated. The structure and behavior of volcanoes depends on a number of factors. Some volcanoes have rugged peaks formed by lava domes

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