Answer to Question #156672 in Physical geography for tayyaba

Question

VOLCANOES

i have studied that when magma comes out from the cracks of crust and when it comes out it is called lava.now i want to know that when first time volcano erupts how it will look.because at that time there will be no cone shape like volcano .there will only be plain piece of land or not?

Answer 1

Yes, what we call volcanoes has a specific shape everyone can recognize. However, long before the first eruption the place above the forming volcano looks as a regular flat surface. As magma comes closer to the surface when the crusts move away from each other or for other reason, this flat spot becomes a bulge and then a cone-shaped volcano.