I had the pleasure of traveling with my family to see the "perfect cone" Volcano in the Philippines. The official name for the Volcano is Mt. Mayon. Mt. Mayon is the one of the most famous active volcanoes in the Philippines. It is a perfect stratovolcano rising to 2462 meters on Luzon Island. This means that the volcano is built up of alternate layers of lava an ash. They consider stratovolcanoes to be the most deadliest kind of volcanoes. Mt. Mayon erupts often producing pyroclastic flows, mud flows, and ash that creates a lot of evacuation within the surrounding areas. The volcanoes most deadly eruption happened in 1814 killed more than 1200 people and destroying many towns that are near by. The lava that comes from a stratovolcano is very viscous and cools , and hardens before spreading very far. These types of volcanoes are constructed over a period of time. It take thousands of years for a volcano of this magnitude to get so large.
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