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smaller earthquakes that happen after a large earthquake
aftershocks
magma that is a mix of basaltic and rhyolitic; eruption may or may not be explosive
andesitic
arch-shaped, upward fold in rock
anticline
magma that has low viscosity and low silica and gas content; eruption is non-explosive
basaltic
a large mass of hardened igneous rock beneath all layers of sedimentary rock
batholith