How to Use stratovolcano in a Sentence

stratovolcano

noun

• At 8,929 feet, this small stratovolcano is the highest point in Crater Lake National Park, and the views from the top are outstanding.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2021
• The photos released this week by NASA show volcanic plumes that rarely rise from the stratovolcano, which is almost half-a-mile wide and 650 feet deep.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• Perched on the edge is a small stratovolcano (or possibly a cinder cone) of unknown age known as Morro de San Diego.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2013
• Already, wildflowers have begun to sprout in around Mount Rainier, a large active stratovolcano for which the park is named.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 26 June 2019
• The freestanding stratovolcano just north of Redding is California’s fifth-highest peak and home to the state’s largest and longest glaciers.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2021
• From there to the Oregon border, the skyline is dominated by the Mount Shasta stratovolcano.
  — Outside Online, 1 June 2021
• Scientists detected a lava fountain at the summit of Great Sitkin, also a stratovolcano with a caldera and dome.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2021
• This is typical for a volcano like Fuego, a stratovolcano in a subduction zone, where one plate is sliding under another.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2018
• Weather presents another major problem: Mount Hood is a solo stratovolcano plopped in a maritime climate with a prominence of 7,706 feet above an endless sea of Douglas fir.
  — Outside Online, 29 May 2022
• Though dozens of small earthquakes shook the ground near Mount St. Helens early Wednesday morning, they were not caused by shifting magma within the active stratovolcano, according to experts.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 3 Jan. 2018
• When a stratovolcano explodes, toxic gases and hot volcanic fragments can race down the mountainside with hurricane force.
  — National Geographic, 21 May 2016
• Mayon, located in the Albay province, is a stratovolcano—steep volcanoes built up by eruptions of volcanic material over the course of thousands of years.
  — Time, 15 June 2023
• Episodic low-level ash emissions and minor explosions have been detected by a webcam set up on the summit of the 8,261-foot stratovolcano, which is usually covered in snow and ice.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2021
• Whereas Kilauea, a shield volcano, is characterized by large globs of slow-moving lava inching out of fissures, Fuego, a stratovolcano, is prone to spewing fast-moving flows of ash, lava, and mud.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 4 June 2018
• Eruption of Tungurahua volcano, an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
• The two volcanoes are also different shapes: Kilauea is a gently sloping shield volcano, unlike Mount St. Helens, which is a steep-sided stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
• Spend your time hiking to waterfalls, stargazing in telescopes, mountain biking rainforest singletrack, kayaking through mangrove forests, or floating in an inner tube down Rio Blanco Canyon below the Miravalles stratovolcano.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 5 Apr. 2019
• Mount Agung, a giant stratovolcano that dominates northern Bali’s landscape, is likely to blow, according to Indonesia’s national volcano monitor.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024