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Which consequence results when silica content reduces lava flow?

A)Increased viscosity favors explosive eruptions
B)Shield volcanoes form over broad terrains
C)Basalt plains allow for continuous streamflow
D)Pahoehoe textures dominate volcanic landscapes

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Shield volcanoes form because low silica lava promotes fluid, effusive eruptions, rather than viscous, explosive ones via decreased polymerization; therefore, flatter structures dominate, rather than strato-volcanoes, caused with eruptions involving gas-charged rhyolitic material.

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