As the name suggests, a shield volcano is broad and flat, like a shield. Made primarily of lava flows, shield volcanoes are less dangerous than the smaller stratovolcanoes. Examples include the Hawaiian islands, the base of Mount Etna (upon which several stratovolcanoes were built), Geldingadalir in Iceland, and Erta Ale in Ethiopia. Their lavas are generally fluid and runny, allowing them to spread farther from a vent than a stratovolcano’s lava would. As they travel farther from their source they eventually cool, forming a new layer to the shield volcano. Their slopes are weak, and thus prone to fissure eruptions, which send curtains of fire hundreds of feet into the air.
Kilauea is a shield volcano in the United States. Its broad surface features a long series of craters (aptly named the Chain of Craters) on its East Rift Zone, extending from the summit to the eastern tip of the Big Island. In May of 2018, a series of fissures emerged in the Leilani Estates, wiping out dozens of homes and creating massive lava flows.
by kteeartroyn November 8, 2021
Get the Shield volcanomug. The girl version of the male toilet sword fight
To do this act two girls semi squat bum to bum and pee into the same toilet at the same time
To do this act two girls semi squat bum to bum and pee into the same toilet at the same time
by Shield wall June 17, 2024
Get the Shield wallmug. Use of babies in photographs to emphasize that one's relationship status is definitely not 'single', or, if one is single, see baby cock block.
by Alleycat420 June 4, 2010
Get the Facebook baby shieldmug. An imaginary shield which you have to protect yourself from the autistic people around you. In other words, one uses it to shy himself from the disease of autism from others.
Person 1: For fuck sake, there they are, Yushi and his autistic, inbred, squinty family.
Person 2: Quick, activate your aut shield. We don't want to be like them.
Person 1: Good call.
Person 2: Quick, activate your aut shield. We don't want to be like them.
Person 1: Good call.
by Grannyfucker12345 July 8, 2016
Get the aut shieldmug. When someone takes the part of them that is “oppressed” and use it to get away with being a mean person.
Person 1: Did you see that guy get beaten up?!
Person 2: It’s okay because they are female/gay/trans and the person who got beaten was probably harassing them.
Person 1: That’s such a personality shield.
(This is an over exaggerated example)
Person 2: It’s okay because they are female/gay/trans and the person who got beaten was probably harassing them.
Person 1: That’s such a personality shield.
(This is an over exaggerated example)
by pyro the incubus December 12, 2020
Get the Personality Shieldmug. by filis.filis June 11, 2018
Get the graeme shieldsmug. The defense mechanism that women use to ensure that men cannot stand up for themselves when they are bullied by women.
Laura insulted Mark who then made a comeback. But then Laura used her gender shield and started to cry making Mark look like a dick.
by eanrua1 December 14, 2019
Get the Gender Shieldmug.