Rupture in a planet's crust where material escapes
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to volcanoes:
Volcano –
What type of things are volcanoes?
Volcanoes can be described as all of the following:
- Landform – natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins.