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Volcanoes Of China
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in China. Volcanic fields in China *The Arshan volcanic field is found in the Greater Khingan mountain range, it contains more than 40 cenozoic volcanic cones. *The Honggeertu volcanic field consists of 12 cinder cones which may be holocene *The Jingbo volcanic field is in the Jingpo Lake region of Heilongjiang province *The Keluo, 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 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 north of Hainan island – so is made up of two parts: ** The Hainan Volcanic Field, Hainan Dao volcanic field is the southern part consisting of 58 Pleistocene-Holocene tholeiitic cones ** The Leizhou Bandao volcanic field is the northern part incl ...
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Volcano
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure 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 are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth's plate boundaries are underwater, most volcanoes are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes resulting from divergent tectonic activity are usually non-explosive whereas those resulting from convergent tectonic activity cause violent eruptions."Mid-ocean ridge tectonics, volcanism and geomorphology." Geology 26, no. 455 (2001): 458. https://macdonald.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu/papers/Macdonald%20Mid-Ocean%20Ridge%20Tectonics.pdf Volcanoes can also form where there is str ...
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Mount Xiqiao
Mount Xiqiao is a 40- to 50-million-year-old extinct volcano situated in the south west of the Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong, People's Republic of China from Guangzhou. The mountain is an important scenic area and designated as a national forest park and national geological park. Covering an area of , the area features a total of 72 peaks with the highest, Dacheng Peak (), rising to . Geology From 40–50 million years ago the entire Pearl River Delta was an ancient bay where a volcanic eruption ejected a large quantity of lava into the sea. On cooling, the molten rock formed a conical mountain; the embryonic form of Mount Xiqiao. Thereafter eruptions of lava continued and produced the current 72 peaks. After several million years of erosion by the sea, the area flattened and was gradually colonized by vegetation. Scenery Mount Xiqiao features unusual scenery with strange rock formations and a profusion of fresh water springs as well as 42 natural caves. In total there a ...
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Leizhou Bandao Volcanic Field
Leizhou () is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Zhanjiang. The city was formerly known as Haikang County ( postal: ''Hoihong''); it was upgraded into a city in 1994. Geography Leizhou is located at the extreme southwestern end of Guangdong and lies on the Leizhou Peninsula. Transportation *China National Highway 207 Climate Notable People * Mạc Cửu (1655–1731): Founder of the Principality of Hà Tiên. See also * Leizhou dialect Leizhou or ''Luichew'' Min (, ) is a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Leizhou city, Xuwen County, Mazhang District, most parts of Suixi County and also spoken inside of the linguistically diverse Xiashan District. In the classification of Y ... References County-level cities in Guangdong Zhanjiang National Famous Historical and Cultural City {{Guangdong-geo-stub ...
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Hainan Volcanic Field
The Hainan Volcanic Field is a volcanic field covering the northern half of Hainan, People's Republic of China. Although mostly Pleistocene-Holocene The Holocene () is the current geologic time scale, geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene to ... in age, minor eruptions have been recorded in the 19th and 20th centuries. The field is made up of 58 Pleistocene-Holocene tholeiitic cones. The two best preserved cones (Leihuling and Ma'anshan ()) are on an East-West fracture line that contains 30 young cones in the Shishan () and Yongzing regions. Historically, small fissure eruptions have been recorded from the Lingao and Chengmai areas. Two eruptions have been reported in recent history. A small fissure eruption took place from Lingao cone in the Lingao area sometime in 1883. Another small fissure eruption took place from ...
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Hainan
Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally means "South of the Sea". The province has a land area of , of which Hainan Island is and the rest is over 200 islands scattered across three archipelagos: Zhongsha Islands, Zhongsha, Xisha Islands, Xisha and Nansha Islands, Nansha. It was part of Guangdong from 1950 to 1988, after which it was made a province of its own and was designated as a special economic zones of China, special economic zone by Deng Xiaoping, as part of the Chinese economic reform program. The Han Han Chinese, Chinese population, who compose a majority of the population at 82%, speak a wide variety of languages including Standard Chinese, Hainanese, Hainam Min, Yue Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, etc. Indigenous peoples such as the Hlai people, Hlai, a Kra–Dai l ...
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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 average wide with a maximum water depth of approximately . The strait is susceptible to closure during strong typhoon activity. Whales and dugongs were once common in the strait. History The strait was crossed by the People's Liberation Army forces in the spring of 1950. Transportation The Guangdong–Hainan Ferry (part of the Guangdong–Hainan railway) carries rail cars and automotive vehicles across the strait. While a bridge was planned in the early 2000s, it never came to fruition. A bridge or tunnel has been discussed, as of 2018, as travel by air or ferry can leave residents and visitors isolated when bad weather sets in. See also * Haikou Haikou; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanized as Hoihow is the capital cit ...
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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 surface area of . The field is forested and mostly undisturbed by human activities. Longgang is located in an area of northeast China where the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate, along with other tectonic processes triggers volcanic activity. Some other volcanoes are found in the region, most importantly Changbaishan volcano which is found in the neighbouring Changbaishan volcanic field (120km to the East). Volcanic activity in the field goes back to the Pleistocene. Jinlongdingzi cone suffered a major Plinian eruption in 350 AD or 460 AD, which was accompanied by ash fall and the extrusion of a lava flow. Future volcanic activity in the field may result in hazardous Plinian eruptions. Geography and geological c ...
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Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers). The province is bordered by Jilin to the south and Inner Mongolia to the west. It also shares a border with Russia ( Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai and Zabaykalsky Krai) to the north and east. The capital and the largest city of the province is Harbin. Among Chinese provincial-level administrative divisions, Heilongjiang is the sixth-largest by total area, the 20th-most populous, and the second-poorest by GDP per capita after only Gansu province. The province takes its name from the Amur river which marks the border between the People's Republic of China and Russia. Heilongjiang has significant agricultural production, and raw materials, such as timber, oil, and coal. Etymology ...
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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 lake include ( zh, labels=no, 湄沱湖), ( zh, labels=no, 忽汗海), and (Manchurian: ; zh, 畢爾騰湖). The length of the lake from north to south is and the widest distance between east and west is only . The area is and the storage capacity is 1.63 billion m3. The south part of lake is shallow with the deepest place in the northern part at . The winter average temperature in Heilongjiang Province is below -20°C (-4°F), but the temperature at the bottom of the water is always above 10°C (50°F). On Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, there is a large surface body of liquid hydrocarbons, Jingpo Lacus, named after Jingpo Lake. Formation The lake was created about 10,000 years ago when the lava of volcanic eruptio ...
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Honggeertu Volcanic Field
Honggeertu is a volcanic field in China, in Inner Mongolia. 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 these of Quaternary volcanoes in the neighbourhood. The volcanism may originate in the tectonic effects of the movement of the Ordos Block. Seismic tomography indicates the presence of a low velocity region at the volcano. See also * List of volcanic fields A list of volcanic fields follows below. {{Incomplete list, date=May 2025 Africa Algeria * Atakor volcanic field * In Teria volcanic field * Manzaz volcanic field * Nemours-Nedroma * Tafna Beni Saf * Tahalra volcanic field Cameroon * Oku Volcan ... References External links Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the granites in Honggeertu area, central Inner Mongolia:Constraints from LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb chronology and geochemistry{{PRChina-geo-stub Quaternary volcanism Volcanic f ...
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