High rainfall due the trade wind effect impacts on the severity of erosion on many of the major volcanoes.

The mountain range consists of eight major volcanoes.

And Chia discovered she was looking straight down into the boiling red crater of the region's major volcano!

The mountain is a major andesite volcano, with the magma known for its high levels of Nickel and Chromium.

Even though there are over 1,600 major volcanoes on Venus, none are known to be erupting at present and most are probably long extinct.

Indonesia is a volcanically active country, containing numerous major volcanoes.

It includes about 20 major volcanoes, among a total of over 4,000 separate volcanic vents.

Coastal plains separated by rugged mountains including over 100 volcanic cones, of which several are major volcanoes.

Further north still, Canada has no major volcanoes, but there have been some eruptions in prehistoric times.

They are the andesites, named after the Andes where they make up almost all of the major volcanoes.