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The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Tuff.
A subaqueous volcano is in the form of sloping tuff cones.
- It is formed beneath freshwater and never builds above lake level.
- White Horse Bluff in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field of east-central British Columbia, Canada is an example.
- It can be compared to subaerial volcano which forms and erupts on land surface, or under the air.
- It is most commonly formed in oceans, but can also form in lakes, rivers and subglacial lakes.
- It is associated with subaqueous sedimentary deposits and these deposits range from near shore, off-shore and abyssal mudstone deposits.
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