By ExploreNow Editor, on May 8th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Radiocarbon
Last Known Eruption: 6880 BC ± 40 years
Summit Elevation: 3916 m 12,848 feet
Latitude: 38.52°N 38°31’0″N
Longitude: 35.48°E 35°29’0″E
Mount Erciyes is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri in Turkey.
Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching 3,916 metres. It is considered to be an extension of the Taurus Mountains to the south and is generally regarded as the highest peak of this mountain range which belongs to the Alpide belt in Eurasia.
 Mount Erciyes The volcano is heavily eroded, but may have erupted as recently as 253 BC, as may be depicted on Roman era coins.
Growth of the modern volcano began about 0.9 million years ago, following Pliocene caldera collapse of the Kocdag complex. Numerous parasitic cones and lava domes are found mostly on the north flank of the modern edifice, many along radial fissures. The youngest dated rock was from an 83,000-year-old dacitic lava flow, but rhyodacitic eruptions and lava dome growth occurred later at the Perikartin dome.
 Summit of Mount Erciyes One of the latest documented events was an edifice collapse that produced a large debris avalanche that extended to the east. An early Holocene distal tephra layer in Lebanon was attributed to Erciyes Dagi. Uncertainty remains regarding reported historical eruptions of Erciyes Dagi and their possible depiction on Roman Cappadocian coins. Historical accounts possibly referring to eruptions could also be attributed to methane releases from a swamp in the Sultansazligi Basin.
 Sunset in Mount Erciyes  Aerial View of Mount Erciyes Summit (Ozgur Salcan)  Golden light covering Mount Erciyes  Sunset in Mount Erciyes  View of Mount Erciyes from a distance (Aaron Kim)  View of Mount Erciyes from Kıranardı'dan (Sarigul Seref)  One of the largest volcanos in Anatolia (Bora Gurel)  Mount Erciyes, Sütdonduran Plato, North face (Efkan Sinan)  A view on the major ridge of Mount Erciyes (Marek Misztal)  Mount Erciyes - partly responsible for the rock deposits in Cappadoci (Luc Jamet) Mount Erciyes - partly responsible for the rock deposits in Cappadoci (Luc Jamet) Mount Erciyes, Sütdonduran Plato, North face (Efkan Sinan) Originally posted 2010-10-18 04:24:47.
By ExploreNow Editor, on March 23rd, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Historical
Last Known Eruption: 1840
Summit Elevation: 5165 m 16,945 feet
Latitude: 39.70°N 39°42’0″N
Longitude: 44.30°E 44°18’0″E
The 5165-m-high, double-peaked stratovolcano Mount Ararat, also known as Agri Dagi, is Turkey’s highest, largest volume, and easternmost volcano. Glacier-clad Ararat, along with its twin volcano, 3925-m-high Kucuk Ararat (or Lesser Ararat), covers an area of 1000 sq km at the eastern end of a SSW-ESE line of volcanoes extending from Nemrut Dagi. Construction of the Greater and Lesser Ararat volcanoes was followed by a period of extensive flank eruptions, many erupted along N-S-trending fissures. The initial stage of flank eruptions produced a cluster of cinder cones and dacitic-rhyolitic lava domes surrounding Greater Ararat and a series of pyroclastic cones and domes on the western flank of Lesser Ararat. Late-stage activity formed large pyroclastic cones lower on the flanks of the two volcanoes. Ararat appears to have been active during the 3rd millennium BC; pyroclastic-flow deposits overlie early Bronze Age artifacts and human remains. Karakhanian et al. (2002) reported historical evidence for a phreatic eruption and pyroclastic flow at the time of a July 1840 earthquake and landslide.
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Originally posted 2010-08-18 03:35:51.
By ExploreNow Editor, on March 14th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Caldera
Volcano Status: Anthropology
Last Known Eruption: 2080 BC ± 200 years
Summit Elevation: 1689 m 5,541 feet
Latitude: 38.57°N 38°34’0″N
Longitude: 34.52°E 34°31’0″E
Acigöl-Nevsehir caldera is located in central Turkey and is traversed by the national highway between the towns of Acigöl and Nevsehir. The elliptical 7 x 8 km wide late-Pleistocene caldera is part of a now partially buried larger caldera and contains a group of maars, lava domes, basaltic lava flows, and pyroclastic cones. Three groups of obsidian lava flows have been dated; pre-collapse flows between about 190,000 and 180,000 years before present (BP), 75,000 yrs BP lava domes (such as Taskesik Tepe on the eastern side of the caldera) post-dating formation of the Acigöl-Nevsehir caldera, and young lava domes on the western caldera floor about 20,000 to 15,000 years old. Thirteen scoria layers from local tephras erupted between about 11,000 and 4300 years ago were found in sediment cores in the late Pleistocene Eski Acigöl maar. An ash layer from the Acigöl-Nevsehir volcanic group overlies 2300-1850 BC artifacts of Roman-Cappadocian age.
Acigol-Nevsehir Volcano is located in central Turkey between the towns of Nevaehir and Acigol. The volcano contains a eight by seven km wide caldera, lava flows, maars, lava domes, and pyroclastic cones. Acigol caldera (Kocadag caldera) contains steep, fresh collapse scarps up to 150 m high which are broadly concentric about the dome of
Kocadag Tepe. Eruptions at the volcano have been very explosive. Acigol volcano has produced two major rhyolitic explosive eruptions in the last 180,000 years. Both produced Plinian type eruptions, and generated extensive ignimbrite. Fallout from the eruptions reached 35 km to the NE of the volcano.
Originally posted 2010-09-02 11:09:06.
By ExploreNow Editor, on December 15th, 2011%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Holocene
Last Known Eruption: 8050 BC (?)
Summit Elevation: 4158 m 13,642 feet
Latitude: 38.92°N 38°55’0″N
Longitude: 42.82°E 42°49’0″E
Süphan Dagi is a 4158-m-high basaltic-to-rhyolitic stratovolcano located immediately north of Lake Van. A glacial icecap mantles the summit of the volcano, the 2nd highest in Turkey. During construction of the volcano andesitic-dacitic lava flows alternated with fluid basaltic flows, followed by construction of a large lava dome over the central vent.
The flanks of the volcano are dotted with numerous lava domes and pyroclastic cones erupted along radial and circumferential fissures, particularly on the northern, souther, and eastern sides. The 1.5-km-wide, low-rimmed Aygirgölü maar was erupted on the lower southern flank. During the latest stage of activity, voluminous basaltic lava flows traveled as far as 30 km from the summit. Potassium-Argon dates for Süphan Dagi range from 2 to about 0.1 million years, but the latest basaltic eruption occurred about 10,000 years ago.
 Süphan Dagi  Süphan Dagi Originally posted 2010-10-18 04:07:48.
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