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The diagram below represents the features produced by vulcanicity. Use it to answer the following questions. i)Identify the features A, B and C . ii) Describe...

The diagram below represents the features produced by vulcanicity. Use it to answer the following questions.
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i)Identify the features A, B and C .
ii) Describe how the above feature is formed.

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Kavungya
i) A- Conelet /parasitic cone
B-Crater
C-Pipe

ii)
- Consists of a mixture of lava and ash arranged in alternate layers.
- Built up in series of eruptions over a long period of time.
- Starts with violence eruptions which throws out pyroclasts followed by outflow of acidic lava.
- Later eruptions may blow off the summit to form a crater.
- Parasitic cones may form on the sides.
Kavungya answered the question on May 30, 2019 at 08:25

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