This is a list of active and extinct
volcano
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On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates ...
es in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
.
Volcanic Fields in China
*The
Arshan volcanic field Arshan (russian: Аршан) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
* Arshan, Republic of Buryatia, a settlement in Arshansky Selsoviet of Tunkinsky District in the Republic of Buryatia
* Arshan, Kuytunsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, a v ...
is found in the
Greater Khingan
The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (; IPA: ), is a -long volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.
It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of th ...
mountain range, it contains more than 40 cenozoic volcanic cones.
*The
Honggeertu volcanic field
Honggeertu is a volcanic field in China, in the Nei Mongol Province.
The field is formed by twelve basaltic cinder cones. Some of the cones formed on a fault. It may be of Holocene age. Young lava flows from this field look much younger than ...
consists of 12 cinder cones which may be holocene
*The
Jingbo volcanic field
Jingpo Lake or Lake Jingpo (; '' Pinyin'': Jìng Pō Hú) is a lake located in the upper reaches of the Mudan River among the Wanda Mountains in Ningan County, Heilongjiang Province, in the People's Republic of China. Earlier names for the ...
is in the
Jingpo Lake region of
Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost provinc ...
*The
Keluo volcanic field may have had historic eruptions
*The
Kunlun Volcanic Group last had an eruption on 27 May 1951, and consists of at least 70 pyroclastic cones
*The
Longgang volcanic field
Longgang is a volcanic field in Jilin Province, China. It is also known as Chingyu, Longwan Group or Lung-wan Group. This volcanic field contains over 164 individual centres in the form of crater lakes, maars and volcanic cones and covers a sur ...
contains 150 scoria cones but only one of holocene age
*the
Qionglei volcano group (also known as the
Leiqiong volcanic field) stretches across the
Qiongzhou Strait
The Qiongzhou Strait, also called the is the Chinese strait that separates Guangdong's Leizhou Peninsula from the island province of Hainan. It connects the Gulf of Tonkin on its west to the South China Sea on its east. The strait is on averag ...
north of
Hainan Dao
Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slight ...
Island - so is made up of two parts:
** The
Hainan Dao volcanic field is the southern part consisting of 58 Pleistocene-Holocene tholeiitic cones
** The
Leizhou Bandao volcanic field is the northern part including the stratovolcanoes Tiangyang and Yingfengling as well as several pyroclastic cones, it lies just west of
Zhanjiang
Zhanjiang (), historically spelled Tsamkong, is a prefecture-level city at the southwestern end of Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, facing Haikou city to the south.
As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,981,236 (6,994,832 ...
City
*The
Rehai geothermal field which is part of the
Tengchong volcanic district (
Tengchong) has had 20 hydrothermal eruptions since 1993
*The
Tianshan volcano group contains the historically active cone
Pechan
*The
Wudalianchi volcanic field erupted in 1720-1721 forming the five lakes at
Wudalianchi
Wudalianchi (), formerly Dedu County (), is a county-level city in Heilongjiang province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Heihe.
It contains a volcanic field.
The city's name means "five joint ponds" and refer ...
, and again in 1776
See also
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List of mountains in China
The following is an incomplete list of mountains in the People's Republic of China, sorted in alphabetical order. Some of these mountains that are claimed by the PRC, including those under the control of the Republic of China and those disputed ...
References
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
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Volcanoes
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
Volcanoes
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...