Subaqueous volcano

Subaqueous volcano

A subaqueous volcano is a volcano formed beneath water (similar to submarine volcanoes) and never builds above lake level. [ [http://books.google.ca/books?id=cgE6XG-uL-0C&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=Subaqueous+volcano&source=web&ots=WxL2iZ1PXb&sig=GOJw-QwX81zynGK_udBzwYLvVWQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result Geological Field Trips in Southern Idaho, Eastern Oregon, and Northern Nevada] ] They are commonly in the form of gently sloping tuff cones, although they can sometimes have an unvolcano-like form, such as White Horse Bluff in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field of east-central British Columbia, Canada. [ [http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/belt_wells_e.php Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes - Wells Gray - Clearwater volcano field] ]

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