What are some examples of shield volcanoes?

Shield volcanoes are the largest volcanoes on Earth that actually look like volcanoes (i.e. not counting flood basalt flows). The Hawaiian shield volcanoes are the most famous examples. Shield volcanoes are almost exclusively basalt, a type of lava that is very fluid when erupted. read more

The Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii, Wolf, and Nyamuragira are examples of shield volcanoes on Earth. Shield volcanoes are one type of volcano. These volcanoes are built mainly out of lava that is very fluid. This lava flows out, cools and hardens, adding to layers of cooled and hardened lava underneath it. read more

Shield volcanoes are volcanoes with broad, gentle slopes and built by the eruption of fluid basalt lava (lava flows of low viscosity). Lawa flows out of volcano in all directions from a central summit vent, or group of vents, building a broad, gently sloping cone of flat, domical shape, with a profile much like that a a warrior's shield. read more