Composite Volcanoes
Composite volcanoes usually are the tallest type of volcanoes because when the lava and tephra erupt with great force from a central vent, they pile up to form a cone shaped mountain.
Composite volcanoes include Japan's beautiful Mount Fuji, Mayon volcano in the Philippines and Italy's Vesuvius. Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D 79 burying the towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae under ashes, dust, and cinders.
Mount St. Helens, which has erupted several times since 1980, is a good example of a composite volcano in the United States.