Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano located in Albay, Philippines that has erupted over 49 times in the past 400 years. It has a perfect cone shape that has earned it the nickname the "perfect volcano." Mayon Volcano sits on the eastern side of Luzon near the convergence of the Philippine Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt, where oceanic plates are pushed under continental plates, allowing magma to escape through weaknesses and form volcanoes like Mayon.
Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano located in Albay, Philippines that has erupted over 49 times in the past 400 years. It has a perfect cone shape that has earned it the nickname the "perfect volcano." Mayon Volcano sits on the eastern side of Luzon near the convergence of the Philippine Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt, where oceanic plates are pushed under continental plates, allowing magma to escape through weaknesses and form volcanoes like Mayon.
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Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano located in Albay, Philippines that has erupted over 49 times in the past 400 years. It has a perfect cone shape that has earned it the nickname the "perfect volcano." Mayon Volcano sits on the eastern side of Luzon near the convergence of the Philippine Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt, where oceanic plates are pushed under continental plates, allowing magma to escape through weaknesses and form volcanoes like Mayon.
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In Philippines there are many beauty of nature. One of this is the
Mayon Volcano in Albay which is located in Bicol. It is an active Volcano. There are many volcanoes in the Philippines, but only the Mayon Volcano has the perfect shaped renowned as “perfect cone”. Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano. The current cone was formed through pyroclastic and lava flows from past eruptions. Mayon is the most active of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, having erupted over 49 times in the past 400 years. It is located on the eastern side of Luzon, beside the Philippine Trench which is the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is driven under the Philippine Mobile Belt. Where a continental plate or belt of continental fragments meets an oceanic plate, the lighter continental material overrides the oceanic plate, forcing it down into the Earth's mantle. Magma may be forced through weaknesses in the continental crust caused by the collision of the tectonic plates. One such exit point is Mayon. On October 13, 2008 it was included in New 7 Wonders of Nature Top 10 list. However, it did not make the cut to the Top 25 finalists, giving way to the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River, another site in the Philippines.