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Table CS12.1 Volcanoes of China
Location Type Height (Metres) Global geopark Last erupted

Changbaishan (Baekdu), Jilin Province Stratovolcano 2773 1702, 1994?
Honggeertu, Nie Mongolia 20 Cinder Cones 1700 Holocene
Jingbo, Heilongjiang Province Volcanic Field 500 Yes 520BC
Keluo, Heilongjiang Province 14 Pyroclastic Cones 670 Holocene

Kunlun Group, Tibet 70 Pyroclastic Cones 5608 1951
Leizhou Bandao Group, 480km Volcanic Field (Cenozoic basalts) 259 Yes Holocene
SW of Hong Kong, northern part
of Leiqiong global geopark
Longgang, Jilin Province 150 Cinder Cones 1000 350
Tengchong (Myanmar border area) 97 Pyroclastic Cones 2865 1609
(Burma Arc Microplate) (Hydrothermal
and Rehai Geothermal Field eruptions post
1993)
Tianshan, 440km W of Urumchi Volcanic Field – 650
Turfan, 168km W of Urumchi Cone – 1120
Unnamed, NW Tibet Volcanic Field 5400 Holocene

Wudalianchi, Heilongjiang Province 14 Pyroclastic Cones 597 Yes 1776
Luishan Mud Volcano, Taiwan Mud & Gas Volcano – 2009
Tatun Volcanic Group, 15km N of Hydrothermal 1120 Constant, last
Taipei, Taiwan major volcanic
event Holocene
Arshan, Nei Mongolia 40+ Cinder Cones 362 100
Datong, 265km W of Beijing 6 Cinder Cones 1422 450
Hainan Dong, N Hainan Island 30+ Pyroclastic Cones, continuation of – Yes 1933
Leiqiong volcanic field global geopark
Source: after Siebert & Simkin, 2002; Seach, 2009, revised to include Taiwan.

the Richter scale (China Yunnan Travel Information, Risk factors
2009). Tengchong has the best well-preserved As the volcanoes listed in Table 12.1 are not
volcano groups from the Cenozoic Era in China, presently active in terms of eruptions, the risk
but more importantly for tourism over 80 factors associated with them are generally those of
geothermal springs are scattered around the thermal burns from boiling water. Tengchong’s
volcanoes, making this the second largest Dagungou (Big Boiling Pot) hot spring is 6.1m in
hydrothermal field in China. Yihong Hot Lake is diameter and 1.5m deep and has a surface water
one of the biggest geothermal lakes in China, temperature of 87.7°C (Liu et al, 2000) to 96.6°C
covering a total area of 10km . The natural hot (Wu, 2003). Tengchong’s volcanoes are described
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springs are also popular with visitors because of by Wu (2003) as although they ‘have been sleeping
their medicinal effects on the human body. for centuries, people can hear their snore and feel

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