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Also Known As	composite cone volcano • composite volcano

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Momotombo Volcano and Momotombito Island, Nicaragua

Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano

Cross-sectional diagram showing three tectonic plates at ocean ridges, transform faults, and a subduction zone. The image illustrates rising magma forming rift and subduction volcanoes, convection currents in the mantle, and features such as ocean trenches, extinct and hot-spot volcanoes, and the movement of plates above a molten core and low-velocity mantle layer.

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