Agri-Dagi
Ararat
Location: 39°42´7’’ N, 44°17’50’’ E
Elevation: 5.137 m
TTThe 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. (Global Volcanism Program)
Image STS102-344-23 was taken from the Space Shuttle on 18 March 2001
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Elevation: 5.137 m
TTThe 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. (Global Volcanism Program)
Image STS102-344-23 was taken from the Space Shuttle on 18 March 2001
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