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Ever wondered how a perfect cone like Mayon Volcano was built… or if Mother Nature just woke up one day and said, ‘Yeah, let’s make this aesthetic’?” Mayon Volcano in the Philippines is famous for being almost too perfect. Scientists call it a stratovolcano, which is basically a fancy way of saying it’s built layer by layer over time—like stacking pancakes… but instead of syrup, it’s lava. Here’s how it works: when the volcano erupts, lava flows out, cools down, and hardens.