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Holocene shield volcanoes

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Mauna Kea
Hawaiian volcano
Mauna Loa
volcano on the island of Hawaii in Hawaii, United States
Madeira Island
island of Portugal
Emi Koussi
Highest mountain in Chad
Haleakalā
thumb|right|250px|Sunrise at Haleakalā Haleakalā (; Hawaiian: ), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive, active shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui. The western 25% of the island is formed by another volcano, Mauna Kahalawai, also referred to as the West Maui Mountains.
Piton de la Fournaise
Volcano on the French oversea department La Réunion
Santiago Island
Island in the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador
Tolbachik
Tolbachik () is a volcanic complex on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It consists of two volcanoes, Plosky (flat) Tolbachik (3,085 m) and Ostry (sharp) Tolbachik (3,672 m), which as the names suggest are respectively a flat-topped shield volcano and a peaked stratovolcano. As Ostry is the mountain's highest point, the entire mountain is often referred to as "Ostry Tolbachik", not to be confused with Ostry, a separate volcano to the north also on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Mount Okmok
mountain in United States of America
Mount Berlin
Volcano in West Antarctica
Menengai
Menengai Crater is a massive shield volcano with one of the biggest calderas in the world, in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. It is the largest volcano caldera in Kenya and the second largest volcano caldera in Africa. Volcanic formed rich loam soils enrich the adjacent farmland around its flanks. The crater is on the floor of the Rift Valley. The volcano formed about 200,000 years ago and the prominent 12 x 8 km caldera formed about 8000 years ago. The caldera floor is covered with numerous post caldera lava flows. The Menengai volcano is considered one of the best-preserved Krakatau-sty
Hualālai
Hualālai (pronounced in Hawaiian) is an active shield volcano on the island of Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands. It is the westernmost, third-youngest and the third-most active of the five volcanoes that form the island of Hawaii, following Kīlauea and the much larger Mauna Loa. Its peak stands above sea level. Hualālai is estimated to have risen above sea level about 300,000 years ago. Despite maintaining a very low level of activity since its last eruption in 1801, and being unusually inactive for the last 2,000 years, Hualālai is still considered active, and is expected to erupt again sometim
Alcedo Volcano
mountain in Ecuador
Mount Takahe
shield volcano in Antarctica
Trölladyngja
Situated in the Ódáðahraun lava field, Trölladyngja () is the biggest of the Icelandic shield volcanoes, reaching a height of above sea level, and rising almost above the surrounding desert and lava fields. It part of the Bárðarbunga volcanic system and has a volume of with some extensive lava flows to the north of Bárðarbunga.
Cerro Azul
mountain
Santa Isabel
glaciated stratovolcano in Colombia
Volcán Darwin
mountain in Ecuador
Namarunu
Namarunu is a shield volcano located in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya.
Sierra Negra
volcano on the Galapagos island Isabela
Bely
Volcano in Kamchatka, Russia
San Martín Tuxtla
Shield volcano in Veracruz, Mexico
Ozernoy
Ozernoy () is a small early Holocene basaltic shield volcano located in the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The massive Ksudach volcano is located nearby.
Newberry Volcano
mountain in United States of America
Yelovsky Volcano
geomorphological feature on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East
Uksichan
Uksichan () is a shield volcano located in the northern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.
Titila
Titila () is a shield volcano located in the northern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It comprises two shield volcanoes: Titila and Rassoshina, from which Titila is the higher one.
Atlasov
mountain in Russia
Otdelny
Otdelny (also known as Otdelniy) () is a shield volcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, east of the Savan River.
Axial Seamount
submarine volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge west of Oregon
Eggella
Eggella () is a shield volcano in central Kamchatka. The volcano is located on the west axis of the southern Sredinny Range.
Tuzovsky
mountain in Russia
Maly Payalpan
mountain
Bolshoy Kekuknaysky Volcano
volcano located on the central part of Kamchatka
Pogranichny Volcano
mountain in Russia
Emuruangogolak
Emuruangogolak is an active shield volcano straddling the Gregory Rift in Kenya, in Eastern Africa. It has a caldera on its summit. The last known eruption was a trachyte flow which occurred in 1910. Steam vents and fumarolic activity continues from fissures within the caldera and along the flanks of the volcano. Several maar lakes exist in the rift valley adjacent to the volcano. The volcano's summit is at an elevation of , and its formation is calculated to have been 38,000 years ago.
Taveuni
mountain in Fiji