By Volcano Explorer, on May 18th, 2012%
 Kazbek
Volcano Type: Stratovolcanoes
Volcano Status: Tephrochronology
Last Known Eruption: About 750 B.C.
Summit Elevation: 5050 m 16,568 feet
Latitude: 42.70°N 42°42’0″N
Longitude: 44.50°E 44°30’0″E
Mount Kazbek, is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus located on the border of Kazbegi District of Georgia and North Ossetia. It is the third highest mountain in Georgia (after Mount Shkhara and Janga) and the seventh highest peak in the Caucasus Mountains. The summit lies directly to the west of the town of Stepantsminda and is the most prominent geographic feature of the area. The name in Georgian, Mkinvartsveri, translates to “glacier” or “Ice Mountain”. The Vainakh name Bashlam translated as Molten Mount. Click Here For The Rest Of Mount Kazbek, Georgia
Originally posted 2011-04-21 20:57:26.
By ExploreNow Editor, on May 15th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Historical
Last Known Eruption: 2010
Summit Elevation: 4835 m 15,863 feet
Latitude: 56.057°N 56°3’24″N
Longitude: 160.638°E 160°38’18″E
Kliuchevskoi is Kamchatka’s highest and most active volcano. Since its origin about 6000 years ago, the beautifully symmetrical, 4835-m-high basaltic stratovolcano has produced frequent moderate-volume explosive and effusive eruptions without major periods of inactivity. Kliuchevskoi rises above a saddle NE of sharp-peaked Kamen volcano and lies SE of the broad Ushkovsky massif. More than 100 flank eruptions have occurred at Kliuchevskoi during the past roughly 3000 years, with most lateral craters and cones occurring along radial fissures between the unconfined NE-to-SE flanks of the conical volcano between 500 m and 3600 m elevation. The morphology of its 700-m-wide summit crater has been frequently modified by historical eruptions, which have been recorded since the late-17th century. Historical eruptions have originated primarily from the summit crater, but have also included numerous major explosive and effusive eruptions from flank craters.
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Originally posted 2010-08-31 04:24:18.
By ExploreNow Editor, on April 30th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Tephrochronology
Last Known Eruption: 50 AD ± 50 years
Summit Elevation: 5633 m 18,481 feet
Latitude: 43.33°N 43°20’0″N
Longitude: 42.45°E 42°27’0″E
 Mount Elbrus Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains of SW Russia, is a large glaciated stratovolcano with twin summits. The 5595-m-high eastern summit has a 250-m-wide, well-preserved crater, separated by a low saddle from the 5633-m-high western summit. Products of Mount Elbrus cover 260 sq km; its longest lava flow traveled 24 km down the NNE flank. The most recent lava flows from Elbrus are fresh-looking, and the latest eruptions took place during the Holocene (Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World). Weak solfataric activity near the summit continues, and hot springs are present on the volcano’s flanks.
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Originally posted 2010-09-02 11:37:56.
By ExploreNow Editor, on April 24th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcanoes
Volcano Status: Radiocarbon
Last Known Eruption: 1230 ± 40 years
Summit Elevation: 602 m 1,975 feet
Latitude: 38.48°N 38°29’0″N
Longitude: 14.95°E 14°57’0″E
Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands, is located immediately north of Vulcano Island. The irregular-shaped island contains numerous small stratovolcanoes, craters, and lava domes on a basement of submarine volcanic deposits. Lipari was formed in three major eruptive cycles, the first of which took place from about 223 to 188 thousand years ago (ka) from N-S-trending fissures on the western side of the island. The second eruptive period from about 102 to 53 ka included the formation of the Monte San Angelo and Costa d’Agosto stratovolcanoes in the center of the island. The third eruptive cycle (40 ka to the present) included the Monte Guardia sequence, erupted at the southern tip of the island between about 22,600 and 16,800 years ago, and Holocene rhyolitic pyroclastic deposits and obsidian lava flows at the NE end of the island. The latest eruption, at Monte Pilato on the NE tip of the island, formed the Rocche Rosse and Forgia Vecchia obsidian lava flows, which have been dated variously from about 500 to 1230 AD. Objects made of obsidian from Lipari have been found throughout southern Italy.
 Lipari Harbour Click Here For The Rest Of Lipari, Italy
Originally posted 2010-09-02 11:24:48.
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