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. ^[1]
• The Honggeertu volcanic field consists of 12 cinder cones which may be holocene ^[2]
• The Jingbo volcanic field is in the Jingpo Lake region of Heilongjiang Province^[3]
• The Keluo volcanic field may have had historic eruptions ^[4]
• The Kunlun Volcanic Group last had an eruption on 27 May 1951, and consists of at least 70 pyroclastic cones ^[5]
• The Longgang volcanic field contains 150 scoria cones but only one of holocene age ^[6]
• the Qionglei volcano group (also known as the Leiqiong volcanic field) stretches across the Qiongzhou Strait north of Hainan Dao Island - so is made up of two parts:
  • The Hainan Dao volcanic field is the southern part consisting of 58 Pleistocene-Holocene tholeiitic cones^[7]
  • 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 City^[8]
• The Rehai geothermal field which is part of the Tengchong volcanic district (Tengchong) has had 20 hydrothermal eruptions since 1993 ^[9]
• The Tianshan volcano group contains the historically active cone Pechan^[10]
• The Wudalianchi volcanic field erupted in 1720-1721 forming the five lakes at Wudalianchi, and again in 1776^[11]

See also

• List of mountains in China

References

• Siebert L, Simkin T (2002–present). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3 (http://www.volcano.si.edu).