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shield volcano

type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid lava flows
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shield volcano

Summary

shield volcano ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (816 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • shield volcano's image is recorded as Hawaiian Eruption-blank.svg[2].
  • shield volcano's GND ID is recorded as 4590674-9[3].
  • shield volcano's subclass of is recorded as volcano[4].
  • shield volcano's Commons category is recorded as Shield volcanoes[5].
  • shield volcano's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01v8rm[6].
  • shield volcano's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Shield volcanoes[7].
  • shield volcano's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/shield-volcano[8].
  • shield volcano's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as shield-volcanoes[9].
  • shield volcano's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as skjoldvulkan[10].
  • shield volcano's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 009171[11].
  • shield volcano's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 158959774[12].
  • shield volcano's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/8839[13].
  • shield volcano's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C158959774[14].
  • shield volcano's WikiKids ID is recorded as Schildvulkaan[15].

Why It Matters

shield volcano ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (816 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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