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Some of the large cinder and scoria cones atop Mauna Kea are more than 1.5 km in diameter and a few hundred meters tall. The cones are surrounded by lava flows that erupted from their flanks. When the youngest glacier covered the summit area 40,000 to 13,000 years ago, several eruptions took ... View of Manua Kea Volcano,
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Mauna Kea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mauna Kea (pronounced /ˌmɔːnə ˈkeɪ.ə/ or /ˌmaʊnə ˈkeɪ.ə/ in English, in Hawaiian) is an inactive volcano in the U.S. state of Hawaii, one of five volcanoes which together f...
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Mauna Kea is considered to be a dormant shield volcano in what is commonly known as the "post-shield" stage. Submarine eruptions began to build Mauna kea from the sea floor around ~0.8 million years ago. The basaltic shield stage of volcanism began by at least 0.3 million years ago.
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii's highest volcano, reaches 4205 m, only 35 m above its neighbor, Mauna Loa. In contrast to Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea lacks a summit caldera and is capped by a profusion of cinder cones and pyroclastic deposits.
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Mauna Kea Volcano [13,796 feet (4205 meters)], the highest point in the Hawaiian Islands, is featured in this near-vertical photograph. The volcano, near the northern end of the big island of Hawaii, is generally recognized to be 400,000 years old and is one of the youngest shield volcanoes in the chain of islands. ...
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Mauna Kea volcano is in a post shield stage of evolution. It is only 35 m higher than nearby, Mauna Loa volcano. Mauna Kea does not have a summit caldera, but there are numerous cinder cones.
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Mauna Kea ("White Mountain") is a dormant volcano on Hawai'i Island, the youngest, largest and southernmost island in the Hawaiian Archipelago. At 13,796 feet, Mauna Kea is the highest volcano in Hawai'i. Near the summit is Lake Wai'au, a remnant from the last glacial period.
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; Milky Way over Mauna Kea Volcano; Photograph courtesy of Wally Pacholka (TWAN) – NASA ... Moonlight faintly illuminates the observatory complex of the University of Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawaii) that is on the summit of the extinct volcano of Mauna Kea. The large caldera in the dark foreground is the two mile...
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An elliptical caldera (2.1 by 2.8 kilometers) at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano is inferred to lie buried beneath hawaiite lava flows and pyroclastic cones at an altitude of approximately 3850 meters.
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