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Wood 1978
Wood, C.A. (1978). Morphometric evolution of composite volcanoes. Geophysical Research Letters 5: doi: 10.1029/GL005i006p00437. issn: 0094-8276.

Statistical relations have been determined between geometry, volume, slope, and age for 26 circum-Pacific composite (strato) volcanoes. General trends in eruption characteristics, repose periods, flow lengths and petrology are also documented. Few examples of the earliest stages of composite volcano activity are known, perhaps because these small volcanoes are indistinguishable from cinder cones. If cinder cones evolve into composite volcanoes a fundamental change in morphometry, eruption style, and petrology occurs at a basal diameter of 2 km.

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