Fissure volcanoes pour out low viscosity basaltic magma from fissure vents to form the extrusive rock basalt.

Composite or stratovolcanoes often have andesitic magma and typically form the extrusive rock andesite. Andesitic magma is composed of many gases and melted mantle rocks.

Cinder or scoria cones violently expel

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