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Wudalianchi

Type
Volcanic field
Elevation
597m
Last eruption
1776
The Pleistocene Nangelaqiushan scoria cone contains a 500-m-wide flat-bottomed crater, is one of many cones forming the Wudalianchi volcanic field in Manchuria, NE China. The cones show a preferred alignment along three parallel NE-SW trends. The Wudalianchi volcanic field was named for five scenic lakes dammed by lava flows during a 1719-21 eruption, which formed two new scoria cones and produced a 65 km2 lava field.
The Pleistocene Nangelaqiushan scoria cone contains a 500-m-wide flat-bottomed crater, is one of many cones forming the Wudalianchi volcanic field in Manchuria, NE China. The cones show a preferred alignment along three parallel NE-SW trends. The Wudalianchi volcanic field was named for five scenic lakes dammed by lava flows during a 1719-21 eruption, which formed two new scoria cones and produced a 65 km2 lava field. · Photo: Photo courtesy of Jim Whitford-Stark, Sul Ross State University, Texas (published in Feng et al., 1979).
Type
Volcanic field
Country
China
Region
Eastern Asia / Central East Asia Volcanic Province
Elevation
597m
Coordinates
48.722, 126.150
Last eruption
1776
Tectonic setting
Intraplate / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Cluster
Major rock type
Trachybasalt / Tephrite basanite

Geological summary

The Wudalianchi volcanic field, named for a string of five scenic lava-dammed lakes, consists of 14 cinder cones capping a 500 km2 shield-like lava plateau in NE China.

Excerpt from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Read the full summary on GVP →

Eruption history

2 recordedGlossary

Record summary

Confirmed eruptions
2
Uncertain eruptions
0
Span of confirmed record
1720 – 1776
Largest confirmed eruption
VEI 3 (1720)
Confirmed eruptions since 1900
0
Summary (VEI over time)
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1720~1726 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 31770~1776 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 217201731174817591770

Detailed timeline

  1. 1776VEI 2Observed
    1776 – end unknown
    Laoheishan
  2. 1720VEI 3Observed
    1720-01-14 – 1721-06
    Laoheishan and Huoshaoshan

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