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cinder cone
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a steep, cone-shaped hill or mountain made of volcanic ash, cinder, and bombs piled up around a volcano's opening
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composite volcano
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a tall, cone-shaped mountain in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash and other volcanic materials
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caldera
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the large hole at the top of a volcano formed when the roof of volcano's magma chamber collapses
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volcanic neck
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a deposit of hardened magma in a volcano's pipe
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dike
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a slab of volcanic rock formed when magma forces itself across rock layers
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sill
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a slab of volcanic rock formed when magma squeezes between layers of rock
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batholith
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a mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cooled inside the crust
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