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)
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Active
Canada
- Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex (British Columbia, Canada)
Ecuador
- Alcedo, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- La Cumbre, Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands
- Sierra Negra, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Cerro Azul, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Wolf, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Marchena, Marchena Island, Galápagos Islands
- Darwin, Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands
- Galápagos Rift, Galápagos Islands
Other
- Barrier (Kenya)
- Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
- Erta Ale (Ethiopia)
- Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
- Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
- Mount Karthala (Comoros)
- Namarunu (Kenya)
- Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
- Mount Nyamuragira (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France)
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Kīlauea, Hawaii, US
- Mauna Loa, Hawaii
- Mount Halla (Jeju Island, South Korea)
- Mascarin Peak (Marion Island,South Africa)
Dormant
Canada
- Heart Peaks
- Itcha Range (British Columbia, Canada)
- Lava plateau of Level Mountain (British Columbia, Canada)
United States
- Arlington Cone (Arizona)
- Belknap Crater (Oregon)
- Gillespie Volcano (Arizona)
- Haleakalā (Maui)
- Hell's Half Acre (Idaho)
- House Mountain (Arizona)
- Hualālai (Hawaii)
- Indian Heaven (Washington)
- Larch Mountain (Oregon)
- Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
- Medicine Lake Volcano (California)
- Newberry Volcano (Oregon)
- Pelican Butte (Oregon)
- Shoshone Lava Field (Idaho)
- The Three Sisters (Oregon)
- Wapi Lava Field (Idaho)
Costa Rica
Kenya
Other
- La Grille (Comoros)
- Mt. Bar le Duc (Mauritius)
- Queen Mary's Peak (South Atlantic Ocean)
- Rangitoto Island (New Zealand)
- Santorini (Greece)
- São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe, Atlantic Ocean)
- Skjaldbreiður (Iceland)
- Kollóttadyngja (Iceland)
- Trölladyngja (Iceland)
- Mount Takahe (Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica)
- Taveuni (Fiji)
- Karaca Dağ (Turkey)
Extinct
Antarctica
- Mount Andrus
- Mount Berlin
- Mount Moulton
- Mount Sidley (Marie Byrd Land)
- Mount Terror (Ross Dependency)
Other
- Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
- 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)
- Mormon Mountain (Arizona, United States)
- House Mountain (Arizona, United States)
- Hackberry Mountain (Arizona, United States)
- Lord Howe Island, (Australia)
- Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France)
- Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
- Pūhāhonu, Hawaii – the largest shield volcano on Earth by volume
- Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
- Slieve Gullion (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
- Topo Volcano, Azores, Portugal
- Tweed Volcano, Australia
- Mount Charter, Australia
- Mount Tor, Australia
- Mount Julia, Australia
- Mount Cripps, Australia
- Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.)
Other planets and satellites
Mars & Venus
- Alba Mons
- Olympus Mons
- Arsia Mons
- Ascraeus Mons
- Pavonis Mons
- Syrtis Major Planum
- Maat Mons
- Theia Mons
Io
Io, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons.
Pyroclastic shields
See also: Pyroclastic shieldBolivia
Nicaragua
Papua New Guinea
Other
See also
- List of stratovolcanoes
- List of subglacial volcanoes
- List of cinder cones
- List of lava domes
- Shield volcano
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- "Karaca Dag". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
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