I suppose I either read or was told, somewhere in early childhood, that volcanoes go *boom* and explode, which for some reason just stuck and I never bothered to re-check. (thinking back on it, I was probably being told about Pompeii, where it did kinda go *boom*)
With footage of Mauna Loa all over the place..that does not look like what kid-me thought a volcanic eruption did.
Do different types of volcanoes erupt differently? Do none erupt like kid-me was told they do?
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Yes, different volcanoes erupt differently. Or even the same volcano can erupt differently at different times. For example, Mount St. Helens in Washington, USA blew up so hard in 1980 that basically half of the mountain is now just gone.
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