I found these one day when looking for the Great Wall of China on Google Maps.
They look like small volcanoes, but I guess that they are not magmatic in origin, so what are they?
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Mongolia has a few Holocene volcanoes listed by the Global Volcanism Program (GVP), you just happened to find one of them! According to the GVP, it is the Dariganga Volcanic Field:
The Dariganga volcanic field, located in SE Mongolia near the China border, consists of more than 200 lava and cinder cones of Pleistocene and Holocene age erupted from NE-trending parallel fissures.
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2$\begingroup$ So they really were volcanoes (cinder cones). I thought that they probably were some formations caused by the ground freezing and melting. Thanks for you answer! $\endgroup$md2perpe– md2perpe2025-12-29 18:55:18 +00:00Commented 2 days ago