This is very much the same thing only the cork is a small piece of the Earth s crust. Although the basic cause of eruption is the same, different types of volcanoes erupt in different ways. There are various types of volcanoes around the world. They include Shield, Cinder Cone, Composite, Compound, Strato, Dome, Pyroclastic, Fluted Cone, Strombolian, Vulcanian, Hawaiian and Peleean. They can be dormant, extinct and active.
Shield volcanoes are the largest volcanoes on the face of the Earth.
Shield volcanoes are made almost totally of Basalt. They are the result of lots of runny lava that came out and ran down the side of the mountain. Some of the major Shield volcanoes are Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Fernandina, Erta Alc, Tolbachik and Masaya. And that s just a few of them. They are made up of about half lava and half pyroclasts.