TYPES OF VOLCANOES

Did you know that you cannot see all of Earth’s volcanoes? Many of Earth’s volcanoes are called continental volcanoes because they are on the Earth’s surface. But there are also what we call submarine volcanoes because they are under water. In fact, some of the submarine volcanoes do not really look like volcanoes at all!

learn more about continental volcanoes
learn more about submarine volcanoes


LINKS

Links

Creation of Volcanoes

Types of Volcanoes

Volcanic Eruptions

Effects of Volcanoes

Predicting Eruptions

 

site created by Maria-Kristina Smith, November 2002